Extinct Animals | |
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Dodo | |
Information | |
Common Name | Dodo |
Estimated Population | none |
Scientific Classification | |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Aves |
Order | Columbiformes |
Family | Columbidae |
Genus | Raphus |
Species | †R. cucullatus |
Conservation Status | |
Extinct |
An extinct species is a species of organism that is no longer alive and can no longer be found in the wild or in captivity.
Animals[]
- Aardonyx
- Abelisaurus
- Abrictosaurus
- African Mammoth
- Afrocyclops pauliani
- Ainsworth's salamander
- Alaotra Grebe
- Albertosaurus
- Allosaurus
- American Cave Lion
- American Cheetah
- American Lion
- American Mastodon
- Amphibamus
- Amphicyonidae
- Anchitherium
- Ancient Bison
- Ancylotherium
- Andrewsarchus
- Anisodon
- Ankylosaurus
- Apatosaurus
- Arabian Ostrich
- Arandaspis
- Archaeopteryx
- Ash Meadows Killifish
- Asian Ostrich
- Astraspis
- Asian Straight-Tusked Elephant
- Atlas Bear
- Atlas Wild Ass
- Aurochs
- Balearic Shrew
- Bali Tiger
- Bar-winged Rail
- Bramatherium
- Baryonyx
- Basilosaurus
- Bishop's ʻōʻō
- Blackfin cisco
- Blue-gray Mouse
- Bluebuck
- Bonin Grosbeak
- Bos acutifrons
- Bos palaesondaicus
- Bos planifrons
- Brachiosaurus
- British Bear
- British Wolf
- Broad-faced Potoroo
- Brontothere
- Brygmophyseter
- Bulldog Rat
- Bunker's Woodrat
- Bush-antlered deer
- California Grizzly Bear
- California Tapir
- Camelops
- Coregonus Fera
- Coregonus Restrictus
- Chondrostoma Scodrense
- Camptosaurus
- Cape Lion
- Capromeryx
- Chilonopsis Blofeldi
- Carcharodontosaurus
- Caribbean Monk Seal
- Carnotaurus
- Cretan Owl
- Carolina Parakeet
- Carpathian Wisent
- Carpet Shark
- Cascade Mountain Wolf
- Caldwellia Philyrina
- Chilonopsis Melanoides
- Chilonopsis Nonpareil
- Chilonopsis Subplicatus
- Chilonopsis Subtruncatus
- Chilonopsis Turtoni
- Colparion Madgei
- Ctenoglypta Newtoni
- Cyclophorus Horridulum
- Cyclosurus Mariei
- Dupontia Proletaria
- Erepta Nevilli
- Gibbus Lyonetianus
- Caspian Tiger
- Caucasian Moose
- Campolaemus Perexilis
- Celebochoerus Cagayanensis
- Cave Bear
- Cave Hyena
- Cave Lion
- Cave Wolf
- Cebu Hanging Parrot
- Cebu Tamaraw
- Coregonus Bezola
- Cebu Warty Pig
- Chalicotherium
- Coastal Moa
- Coelurosauravus
- Columbian mammoth
- Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby
- Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus
- Cretan Dwarf Mammoth
- Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Chilonopsis Helena
- Cuban Macaw
- Cretan Giant Rat
- Cretan Dwarf Deer
- Cuban Pauraque
- Cynodictis
- Cynthiacetus
- Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus
- Chilonopsis Exulatus
- Damaliscus Hypsodon
- Daspletosaurus
- Deinonychus
- Deinosuchus
- Deinotherium
- Desert Rat-kangaroo
- Desmatosuchus
- Diictodon
- Dilophosaurus
- Dinilysia
- Dinofelis
- Dinosaur
- Dimetrodon
- Diplocaulus
- Diplodocus
- Diprotodon
- Dire wolf
- Dodo
- Doedicurus
- Domed Rodrigues Giant Tortoise
- Dominican Green-and-Yellow Macaw
- Dorudon
- Dreadnoughtus
- Drepanaspis gemuendenensis
- Dryosaurus
- Dusky Seaside Sparrow
- Dwarf Panda
- Dwarf Sicilian Elephant
- Early Middle Pleistocene European Cave Lion
- Early Polar Bear
- Eastern Cougar
- Eastern Hare-wallaby
- Echinochimaera
- Echoraptor
- Edaphosaurus
- Edmontosaurus
- Egyptian Cattle
- Eiao Monarch
- Ekaltadeta
- Elasmotherium
- Elephant Bird
- Eobasileus
- Eoraptor
- Ethiopian cape lion
- Eurasian cave lion
- European Ass
- European Cave Lion
- European Ice Age Leopard
- European Jaguar
- Eunectes stirtoni
- Exaeretodon
- Falcatus
- Florida Black Wolf
- Florida Red Wolf
- Gasosaurus
- Gastornis
- Gastric-brooding Frog
- Giant Aye-Aye
- Giant Bullfrog
- Giant Fossa
- Gravenche
- Giant Ground Sloth
- Giant Monarch Butterfly
- Giant Short-Faced Hyena
- Giant Swan
- Giant Solenodon
- Giant Warthog
- Giganotosaurus
- Gigantophis
- Gigantopithecus
- Gigantopithecus-blacki
- Giganotosaurus
- Glyptodon
- Gobiatherium
- Godinotia
- Golden Toad
- Gorgosaurus
- Goliath Tenerife Lizard
- Gracile Goshawk
- Gravenche
- Great Auk
- Great Ground Dove
- Greater Koa Finch
- Guam Flycatcher
- Guam Flying Fox
- Haitian Edible Rat
- Harelip Sucker
- Harrington's Mountain Goat
- Hawaiʻi ʻōʻō
- Hayoceros
- Heath Hen
- Helicorpion
- Henderson Ground Dove
- Herrerasaurus
- Hispaniolan Edible Rat
- Hoekman's Blunt-snouted Dolphin
- Holocene Bison
- Harmogenanina Linophora
- Harmogenanina Subdetecta
- Unio Cariei
- Homo antecessor
- Homo erectus
- Homo ergaster
- Homo floresiensis
- Homo habilis
- Homo heidelbergensis
- Homo rhodesiensis
- Homotherium
- Honshū Wolf
- Hyneria
- Iguanodon
- Indian aurochs
- Indonesian Coelacanth
- Insular Cave Rat
- Irish elk
- Ibizan Rail
- Issoire Lynx
- Japanese Gazelle
- Japanese River Otter
- Japanese Sea Lion
- Javan Tiger
- Kangaroo Island Emu
- Kauaʻi ʻōʻō
- Kentrosaurus
- King Island Emu
- Kioea
- Kubanochoerus
- Koreaceratops
- Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby
- Large Palau Flying Fox
- Laughing Owl
- Leedsichthys
- Lesser Antillean Macaw
- Lesser Bilby
- Little Swan Island Hutia
- Livyatan
- Long-horned Bison
- Lord Howe Boobook
- Lunaspis
- Lystrosaurus
- Machu Picchu Arboreal Chinchilla Rat
- Macrauchenia
- Maltese Hippopotamus
- Madeiran Scops Owl
- Malagasy Hippopotamus
- Mammoth
- Mammotherium
- Majorcan Giant Dormouse
- Mangaia Swiftlet
- Mascarene Coot
- Maupiti Monarch
- Mauritian Blue Pigeon
- Mauritian Giant Skink
- Mauritius Wood Pigeon
- Megaceroides Algericus
- Megalodon
- Megalonyx
- Megalochelys Atlas
- Megantereon
- Meiolania
- Metamynodon
- Mexican Grizzly Bear
- Majorcan Hare
- Microbrachis
- Micropachycephalosaurus
- Minorcan Giant Dormouse
- Miracinonyx
- Moa
- Mauritius Night Heron
- Merck's Rhinoceros
- Moropus
- Nambicypris Costata
- Nannophrys guentheri
- Nasutoceratops
- Neanderthal
- Nestoritherium
- New Caledonian Ground Dove
- New Zealand Owlet-nightjar
- Njandong Tiger
- Norfolk Boobook
- Norfolk Ground Dove
- Norfolk Triller
- North African Aurochs
- North African Elephant
- North Island Piopio
- Northern Pig-footed Bandicoot
- Narrow-Nosed Rhinoceros
- Northern Rocky Mountains Wolf
- Sardinian Shrew
- Sardinian Pika
- Nuku Hiva Monarch
- Orange Mud Crab
- Oriente Cave Rat
- Ottoia
- Oʻahu ʻōʻō
- Pachycephalosaurus
- Pachyrhinosaurus
- Palaeopropithecus
- Paleolithic Dog
- Paleothyris
- Panthera blytheae
- Paraceratherium
- Pleistocene Wood Bison
- Paramylodon
- Parasaurolophus
- Passenger Pigeon
- Phorusrhacos
- Pinta Island Tortoise
- Placerias
- Plesiosaurus
- Philippine Rhinoceros
- Pongo hooijeri
- Po'ouli
- Powerful Goshawk
- Proailurus lemanensis
- Probathyopsis
- Prodinoceras
- Protarchaeopteryx
- Protemnodon
- Protospongia
- Pseudopulex
- Pteranodon
- Philippine Dwarf Elephant
- Ptychochromis onilahy
- Ptychochromoides itas
- Puerto Rican Flower Bat
- Puerto Rican Quail-dove
- Puijila
- Pulmonoscorpius
- Pygmy Tapir
- Pied Raven |
- Quagga
- Queen Charlotte's Island Caribou
- Quetzalcoatlus
- Raptorex
- Remingtonocetidae
- Red-moustached Fruit Dove
- Red-throated Wood Rail
- Riversleigh Rainforest Koala
- Roberts' Lechwe
- Rodrigues Blue Pigeon
- Rodrigues Day Gecko
- Rodrigues Night Heron
- Rodrigues Owl
- Rodrigues Parrot
- Rodrigues Pigeon
- Ratas Island Lizard
- Rolfosteus canningensis
- Round Island Burrowing Boa
- Ryukyu Kingfisher
- Réunion Ibis
- Réunion Kestrel
- Réunion Night Heron
- Réunion Parrot
- Réunion Pink Pigeon
- Réunion Rail
- Réunion Swamphen
- Réunion Shelduck
- Réunion Giant Tortoise
- Saber-toothed Cat
- Saddle-Backed Mauritius Giant Tortoise
- San Martín Island Woodrat
- Sanjuansaurus
- Saudi Gazelle
- Schomburgk's Deer
- Scutosaurus
- Short-faced Bear
- Short-horned Water Buffalo
- Siamosaurus
- Silver trout
- Simbakubwa Kutokaafrika
- Simosuchus
- Sinohippus
- Sivatherium
- Small Mauritian Flying Fox
- Sardinian Dhole
- Machairodontinae
- Smilodon
- Soliclymenia
- Santo Stefano Lizard
- South Island Piopio
- Southern Black Rhinoceros
- Southern Rocky Mountains Wolf
- Spinosaurus
- Springhare
- St Kilda House Mouse
- St. John's Water Dog
- Stagonolepis
- Stegomastodon
- Stegosaurus
- Steller's Sea Cow
- Steppe Wisent
- Stephens Island Wren
- Stokesosaurus
- Styracosaurus
- Swartberg Dwarf Chameleon
- Syrian Elephant
- Syrian Wild Ass
- São Miguel Scops Owl
- Tacoma Pocket Gopher
- Tanna Ground Dove
- Tarbosaurus
- Tarpan
- Teratophoneus
- Teratornis
- Texas Wolf
- Tecopa Pupfish
- Tyrrhenian Giant Rat
- Therizinosaurus
- Thick-billed Ground Dove
- Thylacine
- Titanis
- Titanoboa
- Titanotylopus
- Toolache Wallaby
- Torre's Cave Rat
- Toxodon
- Tyrrhenian Mole
- Triceratops
- Trinil Tiger
- Tyrannosaurus
- Tyrrhenian Vole
- Tesem
- Tropodiaptomus Ctenopus
- Uintatherium
- Utahraptor
- Vegas Valley Leopard Frog
- Velociraptor
- Voay
- Wanshien Tiger
- Warrah
- Wesserpeton
- Western Black Rhinoceros
- Westlothiana
- Woolly Mammoth
- Woolly Rhinoceros
- Yorkshire Coach Horse
- Yunnan lake newt
- Yutyrannus
- Zalmoxes
- Zanzibar Leopard
- Zuniceratops
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Facts[]
- In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "re-appears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence.
- Habitat degradation is currently the main anthropogenic cause of species extinctions. The main cause of habitat degradation worldwide is agriculture, with urban sprawl, logging, mining and some fishing practices close behind. The degradation of a species' habitat may alter the fitness landscape to such an extent that the species is no longer able to survive and becomes extinct. This may occur by direct effects, such as the environment becoming toxic, or indirectly, by limiting a species' ability to compete effectively for diminished resources or against new competitor species.
- Coextinction refers to the loss of a species due to the extinction of another; for example, the extinction of parasitic insects following the loss of their hosts. Coextinction can also occur when a species loses its pollinator, or top predators in a food chain who lose their prey. "Species coextinction is a manifestation of the interconnectedness of organisms in complex ecosystems ... While coextinction may not be the most important cause of species extinctions, it is certainly an insidious one".
- Birds are now recognised as being the sole surviving lineage of theropod dinosaurs. In traditional taxonomy, birds were considered a separate class that had evolved from dinosaurs, a distinct superorder. However, a majority of contemporary paleontologists concerned with dinosaurs reject the traditional style of classification in favor of phylogenetic nomenclature; this approach requires that, for a group to be natural, all descendants of members of the group must be included in the group as well. Birds are thus considered to be dinosaurs and dinosaurs are, therefore, not extinct. Birds are classified as belonging to the subgroup Maniraptora, which are coelurosaurs, which are theropods, which are saurischians, which are dinosaurs.
- In fiction, the concept of cloning extinct species is thought to have been first popularized by the successful 1990 Michael Crichton novel and subsequent film Jurassic Park, though the idea may have been first used in John Brosnan's 1984 novel Carnosaur, then in F. Paul Wilson's 1989 novel Dydeetown World, and later in Piers Anthony's 1990 novel Balook, which featured the resurrection of a Baluchitherium, though Pat Mills' Judge Dredd story "The Cursed Earth" – in which the titular lawman battles tyrannosaurs who live wild in post-apocalyptic America after they escape from the theme park where they have been cloned to be used as attractions - precedes these examples, published as it was in 1978.