This page features lists of extinct species, organisms that have become
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
, either in the wild or completely disappeared from Earth.
In actual theoretical practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last fifty years of current time is textually called "extinct".
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List of recently extinct plants
Animals
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List of African animals extinct in the Holocene
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People
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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List of extinct animals of Réunion
This is a list of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a Geologic time scale, geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years Before Present, before present (about 9700 ...
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List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene
This list of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the Asian continent and its islands.
Many extinction dates are unknown due to a lack of relevant information.
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List of extinct animals of India
This is a list of extinct animals of India.
Prehistoric Extinctions:
* Asian straight-tusked elephant (''Palaeoloxodon namadicus'') Late Pleistocene
*'' Stegodon namadicus'' Late Pleistocene
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List of extinct animals of the Philippines
The Philippines is a young archipelago with oldest soils dating back to Jurassic and archipelago forming during the Paleogene. Its faunal records of fossil bodies mostly are within the Cenozoic era with Pleistocene fauna began appearing in man ...
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List of European animals extinct in the Holocene
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List of extinct animals of Catalonia
This is a list of extinct and extirpated animals of Spain.
Globally extinct species
Globally extinct mammals
*Aurochs - human-caused
*European lion - human-caused
*Irish elk
*Monk seal (two species endangered) - 1950; human-caused
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List of Caucasian animals extinct in the Holocene
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List of extinct animals of the British Isles
This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles, including extirpated species. Only a small number of the listed species are globally extinct (most famously the Irish elk, great auk and woolly mammoth). Most of the remainder survive to s ...
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Extinct animals from the Isle of Man
Manx cattle
Manx cattle became extinct c. 1815. A description of the breed survives along with a record that the Manx people referred to them as ''Boaghans'' or ''Boghans'' ( Manx words for cow include ''Booa'' and ''Baa'').
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List of extinct and endangered species of Italy
This is a list of extinct and endangered species of Italy.
Symbols
*EX = extinct
*CR = critically endangered
*EN = endangered
*VU = vulnerable
Italian Animals
*Slender-billed curlew (''Numenius tenuirostris'') (critically endangered)
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List of extinct and endangered species of Lithuania
This is a list of extinct, endangered and threatened animals of Lithuania. Collection of this list started in 1959 and the current version (2003) contains 815 species: 23 mammals, 75 birds, 128 insects, 224 flowering plants, 199 fungi and lichen. ...
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List of extinct animals of the Netherlands
This list of extinct animals of the Netherlands includes the animal species and subspecies once lived in the Netherlands but have disappeared since human habitation.
This list features the mammals, birds, fish, molluscs, butterflies, dragonflies ...
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List of extinct animals of the Nordics
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List of extinct animals of Romania
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List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
This list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the North American continent. Animals recently extinct in the List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in t ...
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List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene
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List of extinct animals of Martinique and Guadeloupe
The list of extinct animals in Martinique and Guadeloupe features the animals of the French Overseas Departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe that have become extinct. Several of the bird species listed are hypothetical. Assuming these birds were t ...
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List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene
This list of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the Oceanian continent, with the exclusion of Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand, and Hawaii, which are listed in separ ...
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List of Australian species extinct in the Holocene
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List of Hawaiian animals extinct in the Holocene
This is a list of Hawaiian species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) and continues to the present day.
The Hawaiian Islan ...
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List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene
This is a list of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) and continues to the present day.
New Zealand prop ...
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List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene
This list of South American animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the South American continent.
Many extinction dates are unknown due to a lack of relevant information.
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List of recently extinct amphibians
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 35 extinct species, 146 possibly extinct species, two extinct in the wild species, and one possibly extinct in the wild species of amphibians.
Salamanders
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List of extinct bird species since 1500
Around 129 species of birds have become extinct since 1500, and the rate of extinction seems to be increasing. The situation is exemplified by Hawaii, where 30% of all known recently extinct bird taxa originally lived. Other areas, such as Gua ...
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List of bird extinctions by year
The accuracy of these dates for bird extinctions varies wildly between one entry and another.
15th century
c. 1400
* Haast's eagle 16th century
c. 1500
* Moa (''Emeus huttoni'')
* Moa (''Pachyornis septentrionalis'')
17th century
1650
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List of recently extinct fishes
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 65 extinct fish species, 87 possibly extinct fish species, and six extinct in the wild fish species.
Cartilaginous fish
Possibly extinct species
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List of recently extinct invertebrates
As of July 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 395 extinct species, 206 possibly extinct species, 15 extinct in the wild species, 8 extinct subspecies, and 5 extinct in the wild subspecies of invertebrate.
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List of recently extinct arthropods
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 81 extinct species, 86 possibly extinct species, and two extinct in the wild species of arthropod.
Centipedes
Possibly extinct species
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List of extinct arachnids
This article contains a list of extinct species from the class Arachnida, with the year and location that they were last recorded.
Extinct
Extinct in the wild
There are currently no known arachnids that are extinct in the wild yet still kept ...
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List of recently extinct insects
As of July 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 58 Extinction, extinct species, 46 possibly extinct species, and one extinct in the wild species of insect.
Trichoptera, Caddisflies
Extinct species
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List of extinct butterflies
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List of recently extinct mammals
Recently extinct mammals are defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as any mammals that have become Extinction, extinct since the year 1500 Current Era, CE. Since then, roughly 80 mammal species have become extin ...
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List of extinct dog breeds
The following is a list of extinct dog breeds, varieties, landraces and types.
List of extinct dog breeds, varieties, landraces and types
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List of extinct cetaceans
The list of extinct cetaceans features the extinct genera and 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 hoofe ...
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List of recently extinct molluscs
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List of recently extinct reptiles
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 24 Extinction, extinct species, 17 possibly extinct species, and two extinct in the wild species of reptile.
Testudines, Turtles and tortoises
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Fossil taxa
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List of dinosaur genera
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject o ...
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List of fossil bird genera
Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and non-avian dinosaurs except that some of the former survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event while the latter did not. For ...
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List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Holocene or Late Pleistocene – and before recorded history, or more precisely, before they could be studied alive by ornithol ...
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List of fossil primates
This is a list of fossil primates—extinct primates for which a fossil, fossil record exists. Primates are generally thought to have evolved from a small, unspecialized mammal, which probably fed on insects and fruits. However, the precise source ...
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Lists of prehistoric fish
Prehistoric fish are early fish that are known only from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the first and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary. The study of prehistoric fish is called '' ...
Recent extinction
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List of bird extinctions by year
The accuracy of these dates for bird extinctions varies wildly between one entry and another.
15th century
c. 1400
* Haast's eagle 16th century
c. 1500
* Moa (''Emeus huttoni'')
* Moa (''Pachyornis septentrionalis'')
17th century
1650
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List of extinct dog breeds
The following is a list of extinct dog breeds, varieties, landraces and types.
List of extinct dog breeds, varieties, landraces and types
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List of recently extinct amphibians
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 35 extinct species, 146 possibly extinct species, two extinct in the wild species, and one possibly extinct in the wild species of amphibians.
Salamanders
Extinct species
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List of recently extinct arthropods
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 81 extinct species, 86 possibly extinct species, and two extinct in the wild species of arthropod.
Centipedes
Possibly extinct species
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List of recently extinct fishes
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 65 extinct fish species, 87 possibly extinct fish species, and six extinct in the wild fish species.
Cartilaginous fish
Possibly extinct species
* Lost shark ...
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List of recently extinct insects
As of July 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 58 Extinction, extinct species, 46 possibly extinct species, and one extinct in the wild species of insect.
Trichoptera, Caddisflies
Extinct species
Ephemeropter ...
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List of recently extinct invertebrates
As of July 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 395 extinct species, 206 possibly extinct species, 15 extinct in the wild species, 8 extinct subspecies, and 5 extinct in the wild subspecies of invertebrate.
Flat ...
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List of recently extinct mammals
Recently extinct mammals are defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as any mammals that have become Extinction, extinct since the year 1500 Current Era, CE. Since then, roughly 80 mammal species have become extin ...
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List of recently extinct molluscs
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List of recently extinct reptiles
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 24 Extinction, extinct species, 17 possibly extinct species, and two extinct in the wild species of reptile.
Testudines, Turtles and tortoises
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See also
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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
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Extinction event
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp change in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. I ...
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and inv ...
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Extinct (disambiguation)
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Lists of organisms by population
This is a collection of lists of organisms by their population. While most of the numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. Species population is a science falling under the purview of population ecology and biog ...
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