Haiku Extinct, Forever Gone

Haiku Extinct, Forever Gone

Prehistoric Times

 

Extinct now, but once roamed free

Many dinosaurs

 

 

These aren’t meat eaters

Herbivores eat vegetables

Grasses and tree leaves

 

 

 

Carnivores eat meat

Deadly hunters in the wild

Hunts the herbivores

 

 

 

Jurassic Era

Saw dinosaurs come and go

New breed on the rise

 

 

 

Early Jurassic

Before Cretaceous Era

Dinosaurs roamed then

 

 

Dilophosaurus

It’s a carnivore

And traveled in groups

 

 

 

The Fabrosaurus

Had five fingers on its hands

Was a fast runner

 

 

 

Lesothosaurus

Had large eyes and a long snout

Bird hipped plant eater

 

 

 

Late Jurassic

Leading into Cretaceous

When all things ended

 

 

 

The Torvosaurus

Flesh eater with savage claws

Powerfully built

 

 

Tuojiangosaurus

Was first plated dinosaur

Sharp spikes on its tail

 

 

 

The Camptosaurus

Its snout had a horny beak

And had five fingers

 

 

 

Dinosaurs take flight

These dinosaurs owned the air

Lizards more than birds

 

 

 

The Pterodactyl

Jurassic and Cretaceous

Forty foot wingspan

 

 

Pteranodons

Wingspan of twenty-five feet

Bony crest on head

 

 

 

Early Cretaceous

Beginning of the last age

When dinosaurs lived

 

 

 

This one has fifteen inch claw

His name is Utahraptor

Deadly carnivore

 

 

 

The Deinonychus

Speedy pursuit of its prey

Excellent eyesight

 

 

Tenontosaurus

He was a large plant eater

Balanced with his tail

 

 

 

The late Cretaceous

Dinosaurs roamed the earth

But are no extinct

 

 

Velociraptor

A ferocious preditor

Retractable claw

 

 

 

The Triceratops

Dinosaur, one of the last

To become extinct

 

 

Tyrannosaurus

Better known as the T-Rex

King of meat eaters

 

 

 

Extinct knows no age

More animals of today

Man wiped them all out

 

 

 

The flightless Dodo

On Mauritius Island

By dogs, pigs and rats

 

 

 

 

Gone by the wayside

West African Black Rhino

Poachers did the deed

 

 

Baiji Dolphin

White dolphin is now extinct

Gone from the ocean

 

 

 

Gone the Golden Toad

Only one male existed

So they are no more

 

 

 

Spix’s Macaw

Trapping and habitat loss

Parrots from Brazil

 

 

 

Beautiful curved horns

Pyrenean Ibex gone

Horn rings tells its age

 

 

Quagga extinct

Varity of Zebra

Stripes on body front

 

 

 

Tasmanian wolf

Carnivorous predator

He was Nocturnal

 

 

 

The Javan Tiger

Agriculture encroachment

Nineteen seventy-two

 

 

 

Protoceratops

This forerunner of the horned

Every stage of life

 

 

Brachiosaurs

Late Jurassic Period

One of the largest

 

 

 

These Ice Age mammals

Lived on the frozen tundra

Ice age extinction

 

 

 

Saber Tooth Tiger

They lived during the ice age

Strongest Predator

 

 

 

The Wooly Mammoth

The elephant’s ancestor

Caveman’s winter feast

 

 

Adapted to cold

The Wooly Rhinoceros

Shaggy fur, large horns

 

 

 

Early Mastodon

Related to the Mammoth

And elephants too