Thylacine

Dear followers,
This is the last  post of prehistoric mammal month. There are so many more animals I would like to blog about but sadly there is not enough time. So I hope you enjoy this post. Presenting, my personal favorite, the Tasmanian tiger (a.k.a Tasmanian wolf or Thylacine).

Diet: kangaroos, small rodents, birds, and other marsupials.
Became extinct on: September, 11, 1936
Weight: 66 lbs
Lived in: Australia
Fun fact: The Tasmanian tiger was the largest modern carnivorous marsupial.

Glyptadons

Diet: Herbs
Lived until: the beginning of human settlement
Weight: 1 ton
Length: 10 feet
Lived in: the Americas
Fun facts: Name means carved tooth, and early humans used shells as shelter.

Megatherium sloths

Diet: All types of vegetation and possibly already dead carcasses
Period: From beginning of the first ice age to the dawn of civilization
Fossils have been found in: South America
size: 5 tons and 24 feet long
Closest living relatives: other sloths  

The Skinny shrew

Dear loyal followers,
I have decided that in the month of January I'm going to post about prehistoric mammals. So lets start with the first true mammal on earth, the Skinny shrew. Have a good Prehistoric Mammal Month.

Diet: insects
Habitats: shorelines of fresh water lakes
Closest living retaliative: Elephant shrew (to learn more about the elephant shrew click here)
How we know about them: Fossils in the liaoning providence of china
lived in: the Jurassic period