Neanderthal life carried serious occupational hazards, considering dinner meant going head to head with wooly mammoths and rhinoceros like some Paleolithic rodeo riders.
When we think of extinction, we usually picture large, charismatic creatures, like the saber-toothed tiger, the wooly mammoth or the even the dodo bird.
Giant beasts, like the wooly mammoth and giant sloth, died off to be replaced by better adapted creatures that migrated across land bridges from the north.
Wooly hats This is another accessory you might be tempted to don as a result of extreme cold, but you can't because it is also banned at official football matches.
Honestly, a wooly hat is not ever harming anybody, but to be fair, it would just look absolutely ridiculous to see a player stepping onto the pitch in a wooly bubble hat, don't you think?
The bad news is that a bunch of really cool animals are currently extinct: dinosaurs, wooly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and my personal favorite: the Carolina parakeet -- look how adorable it is!