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Extinction is sad enough without finding out that some of these animals were never quite what we imagined them to be.
The dodo wasn’t necessarily an idiot, the Tasmanian tiger wasn’t a tiger, and the great auk was basically the North Atlantic’s answer to a penguin.
Some had reputations that didn’t match reality, while others left behind mysteries scientists are still trying to solve.
From America’s forgotten native parrot to a giant deer with antlers that sound completely made up, these extinct creatures prove that nature is a lot stranger than the stories we tell about it.
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