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EXTINCT ANIMALS, FISHES & BIRDS
Round Island Burrowing Boa
Native to Round Island, a tiny island off the coast of Mauritius, the Round Island Burrowing Boa preferred to live on the topsoil layers of volcanic slopes. It was once found on several other islands around Mauritius, but its population had dwindled by the 1940s, and it could only be found on Round Island after 1949. It was last seen in 1975.
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Pinta Island Tortoise
The Pinta Island tortoise was around when Darwin visited the Galapagos in 1835. Sadly, a male named Lonesome George (pictured), was the last purebred of this subspecies and passed in 2015.
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Dutch Alcon Blue Butterfly
This Dutch butterfly—a subspecies of the Alcon Blue—was found mainly in the grasslands of The Netherlands. While closely related species (pictured here) still exist in parts of Europe and Asia, the last Dutch Alcon Blue was seen in the wild in 1979.
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Schomburgk’s Deer
Schomburgk’s deer was native to Thailand and was named after German-born explorer, Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, who was knighted in 1844.
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Dodo
The Dodo was a flightless bird native to Mauritius whose population began dwindling and eventually became extinct over the short course of a century when sailors began arriving on the East African island nation.
The last of the Dodos were seen in the 1660s, and because there really wasn’t an emphasis on specimen preservation, many of the remaining fossils were lost or destroyed.
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Smilodon
Smilodons were ancient big cats that are popularly known as the ‘saber-toothed cat’. This is a genus under which three extinct species have been recognized – the S. populator, the S. fatalis, and the S. gracilis. The first evidence of their existence was found from fossils unearthed in the second quarter of the 19th century.
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Irish Elk
The Irish Elk, belonging to family Cervidae, is an extinct mammal. In contrary to its name, the Irish Elk was neither an Elk (belonging to the same group as North American Elk or the European Elk, which is popularly known as Moose in Northern America) nor it was exclusively found in or around Ireland. DNA evidence suggests that it was actually a deer species. In fact, it was one of the largest deer species that have ever roamed on earth. Reason that the word ‘Irish’ has struck with the name of this species because their skeleton remains were mainly found in the peat bogs and lake sediments in Ireland.
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Woolly Mammoth
The Woolly Mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) were among the last members of the mammoth species that roamed the planet during the Pleistocene epoch, colloquially called the Ice Age; however, a population of dwarf mammoths survived on the Arctic Wrangel Island until 1700 BC.
Since the time of discovery of several carcasses from under the permafrost of the Siberian ice, efforts for the de-extinction of these ancient creatures have been undertaken by means of gene editing techniques through selection and insertion of DNA from these specimens.
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Great Auk
The Great auk was a flightless bird that became extinct in the middle of the nineteenth century. It is the only modern species that falls in the genus Pinguinus. This bird had great importance in Native American cultures – both as a symbolic item and also a food source. It was one of the species described in Systema Naturae, an 18th-century work by Carolus Linnaeus. In the book, it was named Alca impennis.
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Caribbean Monk Seal
The Caribbean monk seal, believed to be extinct, was a sub-tropical marine mammal found in the Caribbean. The last confirmed sighting came in 1952 at the Serranilla Bank (falls between Nicaragua and Jamaica), where a small colony was known to live. Caribbean Monk Seals were closely related to the Mediterranean monk seals and Hawaiian monk seals, both of which are critically endangered.
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Moa
The Moa, also known as the Giant Moa, was a genus of large-size birds that were endemic to the island nation of New Zealand several centuries back. These flightless birds, which existed in nine species under six genera, lived in the country for several thousand years before the Māori colonists settled in the country in around 1300 AD. In recent years, efforts have been undertaken by scientists for the revival of this extinct creature.
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Atlas Bear
The Atlas bear is an extinct bear subspecies found in Northern Africa. This animal was recognized by the scientists and researchers after it was brought to public attention by English serviceman named Crowther in 1840.
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Gastric Brooding Frog
The Gastric Brooding Frog is a genus of extinct amphibians that consisted of two species, the Northern Gastric Brooding Frog and the Southern Gastric Brooding Frog. They were endemic to a limited region in Australia and went into permanent disappeared in the mid-1980s. Eventually, the IUCN declared it as ‘EX’ (Extinct) after an extensive search for 35 years in all their possible habitats.
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Yunnan lake newt
The Yunnan lake newt (Cynops wolterstorffi) is an extinct species of newt in the family Salamandridae, and was also known as Wolterstorff's newt. It was only found near the Kunming Lake in Yunnan, China. It was found in shallow lake waters and adjacent freshwater habitats. Despite extensive surveys, it has not been seen since 1979, and is therefore considered extinct. The reasons for its extinction are believed to be habitat loss, pollution, and introduced species.
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Ainsworth's salamander
Ainsworth's salamander (Plethodon ainsworthi) is an extinct species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It was endemic to the United States and only known from its type series collected in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1964. Later research has cast doubt to its validity; it might be a junior synonym of Plethodon mississippi.
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Atelopus chiriquiensis
Atelopus chiriquiensis, the Chiriqui harlequin frog or Lewis' stubfoot toad, is an extinct species of toad in the family Bufonidae that was found in the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica and western Panama (Province and Bocas del Toro Provinces). Its natural habitats were stream margins in lower montane wet forests and rainforests. Its elevational range was 1,400–2,500 m (4,600–8,200 ft) asl.
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Atelopus senex
Atelopus senex (common name: pass stubfoot toad) is an extinct species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It was endemic to Costa Rica and known from the Cordillera Central and Cordillera de Talamanca at elevations of 1,100–2,200 m (3,600–7,200 ft) asl.