Recently Extinct Animals In The World
In 2019 the bird known as the Little Blue Macaw because of its vibrant blue feathers was declared extinct in the wild.
Recently extinct animals in the world. With the death of the last known Pinta Tortoise Lonesome George in captivity since 1972 in. According to the iucn red list in november 2020 the three latest extinct animals in the world were a fish sympterichthys unipennis a bat pipistrellus sturdeei and an insect pseudoyersinia brevipennis. List of recently extinct animals.
At first or even second glance you might think that the thylacine was a wolf or at least a. However there are animals which have disappeared from the face of the earth as recently as the last decade. It is estimated that there are only 177 captive individuals in the world.
The Caribbean monk seal was the first New World mammal to be discovered by Columbus and his company on the coast of Santo Domingo in 1494. Then goats introduced by humans to Pinta in 1959 destroyed the tortoises habitat. In the past centuries about 1000 species have become extinct.
Researchers believe the chytrid fungus outbreak of 1996 in their home. Also known as the Alajuela toad the golden toad was once abundant in a small area in Costa Rica. Mankind has the honor of quite possibly being the.
In this article we shall see the top 10 animals which have been led into extinction in the recent times. The splendid poison frog Oophaga speciosa was declared extinct in 2020 and was last recorded in 1992. All this extinction talk begs the question.
They were also known as the eastern puma. It was a type of cougar which was endemic to northeastern North America. The vaquita is both the smallest and the most endangered marine mammal in the world.