Information about List Of Extinct Animals
Pre-modern extinctions
- List of extinct cetaceans
- List of extinct birds
- List of dinosaurs
- List of extinct land mammals
- List of extinct reptiles
Modern extinction
Africa
Europe
See also:- List of extinct animals of the British Isles
- List of extinct animals of Catalonia
- List of extinct and endangered animals of Lithuania
- List of extinct animals of the Netherlands
North America
Central and South America
See also: List of extinct animals of Martinique and GuadeloupeAsia
Oceania
Endangered species
See Endangered speciesNo longer considered extinct
See Lazarus speciesImages
Replica of Tyrannosaurus rex at the Senckenberg Museum | The Remingtonocetid Kutchicetus: an artist's impression. Illustration by Carl Buell and taken from [1]. | Paleomastodon | ![]() A drawing of Phororhacos, a giant prehistoric bird by Charles R. Knight published in Animals of the Past, 1901. |
Augsburg's depiction of an Aurochs. The Aurochs is one of Europe's most famous extinct animals | Quagga from Regent's Park Zoo, London, 1870. The Quagga is one of Africa's most famous extinct animals | The Laysan Rail, an extinct bird from Hawaii | |
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list of extinct cetaceans features the extinct species of the order Cetacea. The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants of land-living mammals, the even-toed ungulates. The earliest cetaceans were still hoofed-mammals.
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birds have become extinct, and this rate of extinction seems to be increasing. The situation is exemplified by Hawai‘i, where 30% of all known recently extinct species originally lived.
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list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms.
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birds have become extinct, and this rate of extinction seems to be increasing. The situation is exemplified by Hawai‘i, where 30% of all known recently extinct species originally lived.
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The list of extinct animals in Africa features the animals that have become extinct on the African continent and its islands, like Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Seychelles, St. Helena, Cape Verde, etc.
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The list of extinct animals in Europe features the animals that have become extinct on the European continent and some in other dependent territories of European countries.
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This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles. Only a small number of these are globally extinct, most famously the Irish Elk, Great Auk and Woolly Mammoth. Most of the remainder survive to some extent outside the British Isles.
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This is a list of extinct animals of Catalonia.
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Globallly Extinct Species
Mammals
- Aurochs - ca. ?? human caused
- European Lion - c. 0000 human caused
- Gray whale - ca 1700 human caused
- Irish Elk - ??
- Monk seal - ca.
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This is a list of extinct, endangered and threatened animals of Lithuania. Collecting of this list started in 1959 and current version (2003) contains 815 species - 23 mammals, 75 birds, 128 insects, 224 flowering plants, 199 fungi and lichen.
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This is a list of extinct animals of the Netherlands. A lot of animal species and subspecies once lived in the Netherlands but have disappeared today. Fossilized remains of the grey whale (Eschrichtuis robustus
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The list of extinct Canadian animals includes several species that no longer exist. In addition to the animals below, several additional creatures formerly occurred in Canada but do so no longer.
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This is an incomplete list of extinct animals of the United States & North America. This list covers only extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geological period that extends from the present day back to about 10,000 radiocarbon years, approximately 11,430 ± 130 calendar years BP
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list of extinct animals of South America. Animals that became extinct along the history in South America.
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Mammals
- Falkland Island Fox, Dusicyon australis (1876, Falkland Islands)
- Caribbean Monk Seal, Monachus tropicalis
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The list of extinct animals in Martinique and Guadeloupe features the animals that have become extinct in the French Overseas Departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe. 9 animal extinctions have occurred in Martinique, and 9 animal extinction in Guadeloupe.
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The list of extinct animals of Asia features the animals that have become extinct along the history in the Asian Continent.
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Prehistoric extinction
- Sri Lanka lion (Sri Lanka, 37.
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Following is a complete list of Australian vertebrate extinctions from 1788 to the present. There are 23 birds, 4 frogs, and 27 mammal species known to have become extinct since European settlement of Australia.
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This is a list of extinct New Zealand animals.
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Mammals
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endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in number, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters.
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Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later. The term refers to the New Testament story of Lazarus, in which it is claimed that Jesus miraculously raised Lazarus from the dead.
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Tyrannosaurus
Osborn, 1905
Species
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Osborn, 1905
Species
- T. rex (type)
Osborn, 1905
- Manospondylus
Cope, 1892 - Dynamosaurus
Osborn, 1905 - ?Nanotyrannus
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The Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt is the largest museum of natural history in Germany. It is particularly popular with children, who enjoy the extensive collection of dinosaur skeletons: Senckenberg boasts the largest exhibition of large dinosaurs in Europe.
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B. primigenius
Binomial name
Bos primigenius
Subspecies
Bos primigenius primigenius
(Bojanus, 1827)
Bos primigenius namadicus
(Falconer, 1859)
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Binomial name
Bos primigenius
Subspecies
Bos primigenius primigenius
(Bojanus, 1827)
Bos primigenius namadicus
(Falconer, 1859)
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E. q. quagga
Trinomial name
Equus quagga quagga
Boddaert, 1785
The quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange
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Trinomial name
Equus quagga quagga
Boddaert, 1785
The quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange
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P. palmeri
Binomial name
Porzana palmeri
(Frohawk, 1892)
Synonyms
Porzanula palmeri
The Laysan Rail or Laysan Crake (Porzana palmeri
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Binomial name
Porzana palmeri
(Frohawk, 1892)
Synonyms
Porzanula palmeri
The Laysan Rail or Laysan Crake (Porzana palmeri
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Hobart
Tasmania
Population:
• Density: 200,525 (2006)[1] (11th)
148.9/km
Established: 1803
Area: 1357.
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Tasmania
Population:
• Density: 200,525 (2006)[1] (11th)
148.9/km
Established: 1803
Area: 1357.
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T. cynocephalus
Binomial name
Thylacinus cynocephalus
(Harris, 1808)
The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times.
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Binomial name
Thylacinus cynocephalus
(Harris, 1808)
The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times.
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), created in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species.
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