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".

Plants

List of recently extinct plants As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 116 extinct species, 132 possibly extinct species, 35 extinct in the wild species, 13 possibly extinct in the wild species, five extinct subspecies, one extinct ...

Animals

By region

* List of African animals extinct in the Holocene **

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 ...

* List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene **

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 *''Hexaprotodon'' (Indian hippopotamus) Late Pleistoce ...

** List of extinct animals of the Philippines *

List of European animals extinct in the Holocene This list of European animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the European continent and its surrounding islands. Dependent territories of European countries in other continents, l ...

** List of extinct animals of Catalonia **

List of Caucasian animals extinct in the Holocene This list of Caucasian animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the Caucasus, Caucasian region between List of European animals extinct in the Holocene, Europe and List of Asian anim ...

** List of extinct animals of the British Isles *** Extinct animals from the Isle of Man ** List of extinct and endangered species of Italy ** List of extinct and endangered species of Lithuania ** List of extinct animals of the Netherlands ** List of extinct animals of the Nordics **

List of extinct animals of Romania Prehistoric extinctions Mammals * Panthera spelaea * Deinotherium * Cave hyena * Cave bear * Neanderthal * Homo heidelbergensis * Woolly Mammoth * Woolly Rhinoceros * Straight-tusked elephant * Barbary macaque * Mammuthus rumanus * Panthera leo * ...

* List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene **

List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene This list of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the Antilles archipelago and Bermuda (collectively known as the West Indies) between North America and ...

** List of extinct animals of Martinique and Guadeloupe *

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 ...

List of Australian species extinct in the Holocene This is a list of Australian 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. Most Australian me ...

** List of Hawaiian animals extinct in the Holocene ** List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene * List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene

By taxon

* List of recently extinct amphibians * List of extinct bird species since 1500 * List of bird extinctions by year * List of recently extinct fishes * List of recently extinct invertebrates ** List of recently extinct arthropods ***

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 ...

*** List of recently extinct insects **** List of extinct butterflies *

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 extinct since the year 1500 CE. Since then, roughly 80 mammal species have become extinct. Extinction of tax ...

** List of extinct dog breeds ** List of extinct cetaceans *

List of recently extinct molluscs As of February 2021, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 299 extinct species, 149 possibly extinct species, 14 extinct in the wild species, two possibly extinct in the wild species, eight extinct subspecies, one possi ...

* List of recently extinct reptiles

Fossil taxa

* List of dinosaur genera * List of fossil bird genera * List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species * List of fossil primates * Lists of prehistoric fish

Recent extinction

* List of bird extinctions by year * List of extinct dog breeds * List of recently extinct amphibians * List of recently extinct arthropods * List of recently extinct fishes * List of recently extinct insects * List of recently extinct invertebrates *