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Dodo
Raphus cucullatus
Listed extinct · 2024
still looked up 79,594 times a month
The dodo is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to Mauritius, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative…
Conservation · IUCN Red List
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People still look these animals up every month — the count under each one says how often — even though the IUCN Red List has every one of them down as Extinct or Extinct in the Wild. The year on each card is when that listing was made, which can be centuries after the animal itself disappeared.
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Thylacine
Thylacinus cynocephalus
Listed extinct · 2025
still looked up 58,546 times a month
The thylacine, also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf or marsupial wolf is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial which was…
Photo: Public domain
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Aurochs
Bos primigenius
Listed extinct · 2023
still looked up 47,503 times a month
The aurochs is an extinct species of bovine, considered to be the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. With a shoulder height of up to 1.8 m in…
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Great Auk
Pinguinus impennis
Listed extinct · 2021
still looked up 29,107 times a month
The great auk, also known as the penguin or garefowl, is an extinct species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and was…
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Passenger Pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius
Listed extinct · 2019
still looked up 28,168 times a month
The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived from the French…
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Steller’s sea cow
Hydrodamalis gigas
Listed extinct · 2016
still looked up 25,190 times a month
Steller's sea cow is an extinct sirenian described by Georg Wilhelm Steller in 1741. At that time, it was found only around the Commander Islands in…
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Spix's Macaw
Cyanopsitta spixii
Listed extinct in the wild · 2019
still looked up 20,886 times a month
Spix's macaw, also known as the little blue macaw, or simply blue macaw, is a macaw species that was endemic to Brazil. It is a member of tribe Arini…
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Kauaʻi ʻŌʻō
Moho braccatus
Listed extinct · 2023
still looked up 15,879 times a month
The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō or ʻōʻōʻāʻā is an extinct species of ʻōʻō that was endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. It was the last species of Hawaiian…
Aldabra giant tortoise
Aldabrachelys gigantea
Listed extinct · 1996
still looked up 10,689 times a month
The Aldabra giant tortoise, Aldabra tortoise, or simply giant tortoise, is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae and genus Aldabrachelys.…
Photo: S Molteno · CC0
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Carolina Parakeet
Conuropsis carolinensis
Listed extinct · 2021
still looked up 10,675 times a month
The Carolina parakeet, or Carolina conure, is an extinct species of small green neotropical parrot with a bright yellow head, reddish orange face,…
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Falkland Islands wolf
Dusicyon australis
Listed extinct · 2015
still looked up 9,579 times a month
The Falkland Islands wolf, also known as the warrah or the Falkland Islands fox, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. This…
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Père David's deer
Elaphurus davidianus
Listed extinct in the wild · 2016
still looked up 9,189 times a month
Père David's deer, also known as the milu or elaphure, is a species of deer native to the subtropical river valleys of China. It grazes mainly on…
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Chinese paddlefish
Psephurus gladius
Listed extinct · 2022
still looked up 7,244 times a month
The Chinese paddlefish, also known as the Chinese swordfish, is an extinct species of fish that was formerly native to the Yangtze and Yellow River…
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Rodrigues solitaire
Pezophaps solitaria
Listed extinct · 2024
still looked up 7,086 times a month
The Rodrigues solitaire is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. A member…
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Japanese sea lion
Zalophus japonicus
Listed extinct · 2017
still looked up 6,503 times a month
The Japanese sea lion was an aquatic mammal that became extinct in the 1970s. It was considered to be a subspecies of the related California sea lion…
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Rocky Mountain locust
Melanoplus spretus
Listed extinct · 2014
still looked up 5,464 times a month
The Rocky Mountain locust is an extinct species of grasshopper that ranged through the western half of the United States and some western portions of…
Hawaiian Crow
Corvus hawaiiensis
Listed extinct in the wild · 2025
still looked up 4,884 times a month
The Hawaiian crow or ʻalalā is a species of bird in the crow family, Corvidae, that is currently extinct in the wild, though reintroduction programs…
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain
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Sea Mink
Neovison macrodon
Listed extinct
still looked up 4,794 times a month
The sea mink is a recently extinct species of mink that lived on the eastern coast of North America around the Gulf of Maine on the New England…
Golden toad
Incilius periglenes
Listed extinct · 2020
still looked up 4,490 times a month
The golden toad is an extinct species of true toad that was once abundant in a small, high-altitude region of about 4 square kilometres (1.5 mi2) in…
Photo: Bufo_periglenes1.jpg: Charles H. Smith vergröß… · Public domain
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Slender-billed Curlew
Numenius tenuirostris
Listed extinct · 2025
still looked up 4,209 times a month
The slender-billed curlew is an extinct species of curlew formerly native to Eurasia and North Africa. Isotope analysis suggests the majority of the…
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Dabry's sturgeon
Acipenser dabryanus
Listed extinct in the wild · 2022
still looked up 3,870 times a month
Dabry's sturgeon, also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, Changjiang sturgeon and river sturgeon, is a species of fish in the sturgeon family,…
Bramble Cay melomys
Melomys rubicola
Listed extinct · 2025
still looked up 3,692 times a month
The Bramble Cay melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat, is a recently extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae and subfamily Murinae. It…
Photo: I. Bell · CC BY 4.0
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Bluebuck
Hippotragus leucophaeus
Listed extinct · 2017
still looked up 3,584 times a month
The bluebuck or blue antelope is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Africa until around 1800. It was smaller than the other two…
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Socorro Dove
Zenaida graysoni
Listed extinct in the wild · 2020
still looked up 3,139 times a month
The Socorro dove or Grayson's dove is a dove species which is extinct in the wild. It was endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands off…
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Alagoas Curassow
Mitu mitu
Listed extinct in the wild · 2018
still looked up 3,098 times a month
The Alagoas curassow is a glossy-black, pheasant-like bird. It was formerly found in forests in Northeastern Brazil in what is now the states of…
Extinct means there is no reasonable doubt that the last one has died. Extinct in the Wild means the species survives only in captivity, or as a population introduced far outside where it once lived.