FarmVille Extinct Animal Zoo: Everything you need to know

FarmVille's many animal collectors have a new feature to dive into this week, as the Extinct Animal Zoo is now available for building on our farms. This Extinct Animal Zoo will see players collecting various fossils over time to create new extinct animals, in what might be yet another in-game nod to Jurassic Park. We're here with a look at the Extinct Animal Zoo, thanks to Zynga. Let's get started!

The Extinct Animal Zoo can be placed for free via an in-game pop-up, and it requires 30 building materials to build. You'll need to collect 10 Meteorites, 10 Broken Thermometers and 10 Food Chains to complete the construction of the Extinct Animal Zoo, with all of these items being earned through individual requests sent directly to your neighbors. When you complete the Zoo, you'll be able to look inside it to see the parts that you need to create the next extinct animal on the list.

Fossils can be earned once a day by tending the Extinct Animal Zoo, and obviously, the more animals you have inside (and the more variety of animals) the more likely that you'll receive a Fossil you actually need to create a new animal. You can also claim Fossils by clicking on your friends' news feeds when they share them on their walls, or by purchasing them outright with Farm Cash.

We'll have a complete list of the animals you can create in this Extinct Animal Zoo as soon as we can. Stay tuned!

FarmVille Sneak Peek: Is the lost city of Atlantis FarmVille's next big thing?

While most FarmVille players are happy to spend their time working on the game's many Christmas related features this month, the folks at Zynga are already looking ahead to new things, including a potential new farm expansion for the game. The developer has launched a survey for FarmVille fans to complete concerning a new underwater Atlantis farm, and wants to know what we as a community think of that idea.

The survey is available via the official FarmVille Fan Page on Facebook, and it comes with concept art for some of the items that would could expect to find in an underwater farm (seen above). This leads us to believe that the survey is more of a preview than anything else, as it seems unlikely that Zynga would pour this many resources into creating Atlantean items only to scrap them if the survey answers turned negative.

Still, the survey asks players how interested they are in seeing an Atlantis-themed farm, and also asks us about some technicalities concerning underwater play. That is, would we like to see all kinds of trees and animals in this underwater world, or should the game limit the use of land items underwater as that's simply not realistic