Recently Extinct Animals In The World
Short List of Recently Extinct Animals Species 2017.
Recently extinct animals in the world. To find out Stacker used a December 2020 press release from the International Union for Conservation of Nature reporting from The Revelator s John R. With the death of the last known Pinta Tortoise Lonesome George in captivity since 1972 in. The West Virginian woodland bison Arizonas Merriams Elk the Rocky Mountain grasshopper Passenger pigeon and Puerto Ricos Culebra parrot are all animals of the past now.
Then goats introduced by humans to Pinta in 1959 destroyed the tortoises habitat. Mankind has the honor of quite possibly being the. 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.
However there are animals which have disappeared from the face of the earth as recently as the last decade. Also known as the Alajuela toad the golden toad was once abundant in a small area in Costa Rica. A subspecies of the black rhinos the West African black rhino was genetically different than other species.
The ibex native to the Pyrenees Mountains on France and Spains border was declared extinct in 2000. The vaquita is both the smallest and the most endangered marine mammal in the world. At first or even second glance you might think that the thylacine was a wolf or at least a.
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 The Pyrenean ibex a subspecies of the Spanish ibex is yet another just lately extinct animals. The 17 Most Endangered Species In The World.
The best example for recently extinct animals is Eastern Cougar Puma concolor cougar. The splendid poison frog Oophaga speciosa was declared extinct in 2020 and was last recorded in 1992. In the past centuries about 1000 species have become extinct.