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Species: recently extinct species
Species that became extinct after about 5,000 years ago, most of them falling victim to human activity.
Incomplete list
Only species who have a tag with at least one image are listed here.
- woolly mammoth (2nd millennium BCE)
- elephant bird (11th century)
- moa (bird) (c. 1445)
- haast's eagle (shortly after the Moa)
- aurochs (1627)
- dodo (1662)
- steller's sea cow (1768)
- mauritius blue pigeon (c. 1830)
- great auk (1862)
- quagga (1883)
- sea mink (1894)
- japanese wolf (1905)
- passenger pigeon (1914)
- carolina parakeet (1918)
- bubal hartebeest (1925)
- thylacine (1936)
- kaua'i 'o'o (1987)
- pyrenean ibex (2000, again in 2003 after unsuccessful cloning)
- japanese river otter (2012)
- chinese paddlefish (2022)
Below are believed to be extinct but unconfirmed.
- baiji (last seen 2002)
The following tags implicate this tag: aurochs, bubal_hartebeest, carolina_parakeet, chinese_paddlefish, dodo, elephant_bird, great_auk, haast's_eagle, japanese_river_otter, japanese_wolf, mauritius_blue_pigeon, moa_(bird), passenger_pigeon, pyrenean_ibex, quagga, sea_mink, steller's_sea_cow, thylacine (learn more).
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