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Modern Mass Extinction

According to a 1998 survey of 400 biologists conducted by New York's American Museum of Natural History, nearly 70 percent ...

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Prevent Extinction

One of the most important ways to help threatened plants and animals survive is to protect their habitats permanently ...

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Prehistoric Extinction

Prehistoric Extinction

The greatest mass extinction of the last 500 million years or Phanerozoic Eon happened 250 million years ago, ending the Permian Period ...

prehistoric extinction

Mass Extinction

Extinct Mammals Extinct Fish Extinct Birds

Antillean cave rat
Arabian gazelle
Aurochs
Barbados raccoon
Barbados rice-rat
Barbuda rice-rat
Barbuda rice-rat
Basalt plains mouse
Bavarian pine vole
Big-eared hopping mouse
Black-footed ferret
Bluebuck
Blunt-toothed mouse
Brazilian three-banded armadillo
Broad-faced potoroo
Buhler's rat
Bulldog rat
Canary mouse
Cayman Brac hutia
Cayman Brac nesophont
Cayman hutia
Central hare-wallaby
Central rock rat
Columbian hutia
Corozal rat
Corsican shrew
Crescent nailtail
Cuban spider monkey
Curaçao giant rice rat
Curaçao sloth
Curio's giant rat
Dark flying fox
Darling Downs hopping mouse
Darwin's Galapagos mouse
Desert bandicoot
Desert rat-kangaroo
Dusky flying fox
Eastern hare-wallaby
Emperor rat
Falkland Islands dog
Fernandina Galapagos mouse
Field's mouse
Flat-headed myotis
Flores cave rat
Flores long-nosed rat
Florida naked-tailed rat
Giant deer mouseGoliath white-toothed shrew
Grand Cayman hutia
Atlantic gray whale
Great hopping mouse
Great key mouse
Grooved-toothed forest mouse
Guadalcanal rat
Guam flying fox
Gulf of California woodrat
Gull Island vole
Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Haitian edible rat
Hensel's field mouse
Ilin bushy-tailed cloud rat
Imposter hutia
Indefatigable  Galapagos mouse
Insular cave rat
Jamaica rice-rat
Jamaican monkey
Jamaican pallid flower bat
Large Corsican field vole
Large funnel-eared bat
Large ghost faced bat
Large Palau flying fox
Large sloth lemur
Large-eared tenrec
Lava mouse
Lemke's hutia
Lesser bilby
Lesser Cuban nesophont
Lesser stick-nest rat
Lesser yellow bat
Long-tailed hopping mouse
long-nosed potoroo
Lord Howe Island bat
Maclear's rat
Madagascan pygmy hippopotamus; common Malagasy hippo
Malagasy dwarf hippopotamus
Marcano's solenodon
Marianas flying fox
Martinique giant rice-rat
Miller's myotis
Montane hutia
Mummy shrew
Negros naked-backed fruit bat
Nelson's rice-rat
Nendo tube-nosed fruit batNew Guinea big-eared bat
New Zealand greater short-tailed bat
Old fig-eating bat
Omilteme cottontail
Oriente cave rat
Osborn's key mouse
Pemberton's deer mouse
Philippine fruit bat
Pigfooted bandicoot
Poey's pallid flower bat
Pristine mustached bat
Przewalski's horse
Puerto Rican flower bat
Puerto Rican hutia
Puerto Rican plate-toothed mouse
Puerto Rican sloth
Queen of Sheba's gazelle
Rabida Galapagos mouse
Red fruit bat
Red gazelle
Red hairy-tailed bat
Santiago Galapagos Mouse
Sardinian pika
Saudi gazelle
Schomburgk's deer
Sea mink
Short-horned water buffalo
Short-tailed hopping mouse
Small key mouse
Southeastern pocket gopher
St. Lucia giant rice-rat
St. Vincent pygmy rice-rat
Standing's hippo
Steller's sea cow
Sturdee's Bonin pipistrelle
Swan Island hutia
Tanzania woolly bat
Tasmanian bettong
Thylacine; Tasmanian wolf
Toolache wallaby
Torre's cave rat
Tretretretre
Verhoeven's giant tree rat
Vespucci's rat
Victorious nesophont
Vietnam warty pig
 West Indian monk seal
West Indian porcupine
Western Cuban nesophontWestern palm squirrel
White-footed rabbit-rat

Alien splitfin
Alvord cutthroat trout
Ameca shiner
Amistad gambusia
Ash meadows killifish
Ash Meadows poolfish
Bagangan
Banff longnose dace
Baolan
Bitungu
Black kokanee
Blackfin cisco
Blue Pike
Cachorrito de Charco Palma
Catostomidae
Cicek
Clear Lake splittail
Cottidae
Cuitzeo silverside
Cyprinidae
Cyprinodontidae
Dallia pectoralis
Deepwater ciscoe
Disa
Duck-billed buntingi
Durango shiner
Dwarf sturgeon
Endorheic dace
Fera
Ferit
Ganolytes cameo
Ginger pearlfish
Graceful priapella Grass Valley speckled dace
Gravenche
Greasefish
Harelip sucker
Independence Valley tui chub
June sucker
Kandar
Katapa-tapa
Kilch
Kyoyto ninespine stickleback
Ladakh snowtrout
Lake Ontario kiyi
Lake Titicaca orestias
Las Vegas dace
least silverside
Lerma chub
Longjaw ciscoe
Manalak
Maravillas red shiner
Mexican dace
Miller Lake Lamprey
Monkey Spring pupfish
New Zealand grayling
Opal allotoca
Orkney char
Pahranagat spinedace
Pahrump Ranch poolfish
Pait
Palata
Palaeoesox fritzschei
Parras characodon
Parras pupfish
Percidae Pfarrig
Phantom shiner
Plateau dace
Poeciliidae
Popta's buntingi
Raycraft ranch poolfish
Rio Grande bluntnose shiner
Salado shiner
Salmonidae
San Marcos gambusia
Sarasin's minnow
Scharff's charr
Scioto madtom
Silver trout
Sirang
Snake River sucker
Stumptooth minnow
Suwa gudgeon
Syr-Darya shovelnose
Tanypterichthys pridensis
Tecopa pupfish
Tesselated pupfish
Thicktail chub
Tiefseesaibling
Umbra limi
Utah lake sculpin
Whiteline topminnow
Vag baligi
Yellowfin cutthroat trout
Zona

Ascension flightless crake
Atitlan grebe
Auckland Island merganser
Bishop's O`o
Black mamo
Black-fronted parakeet
Bonin Grosbeak
Bonin Wood pigeon
Brawny great moa
Burley lesser moa
Canarian black oystercatcher
Carolina parakeet
Chatham Island banded rail
Chatham Island rail
Chatham Island swan
Columbian grebe
Crested sheldrake
Cuban red mawcaw
Dodo
Four-coloured flowerpecker
Gaudalupe caracara
Gaudalupe storm-petrel
Glaucous mawcaw
Grand Cayman thrush
Great auk
Great elephantbird
Greater `amakihi
Greater Koa finch
Hawaii `akialoa
Hawaii O`o
Hawaiian mamo
Hawaiian rail
Himalayan mountain quail
Hollandais pigeon
Huia
Jamaican least pauraque
Kangaroo Island black emu
Kioea 
Kittlitz's thrush
Kona grosbeak
Kosrae crake
Kosrae Mountain starling
Labrador duck
Lanai `akialoa
Lanai creeper
Lanai hookbill
Lanai thrush Laysan honeycreeper
Laysan millerbird
Laysan rail
Laysan rail
Lesser Koa finch
Lord Howe purple gallinule
Lord Howe white-eye
Mascarene coot
Mascarene parrot
Mauritian duck
Mauritian shelduck
Mauritius grey parrot
Mauritius night-heron
Mauritius parrot
Mysterious starling
New Caledonia lorikeet
New Caledonia wood rail
New Caledonian owlet-frogmouth
New Zealand bush wren
New Zealand little bittern
New Zealand quail
Norfolk Island kaka
Norfolk Island starling
Oahu `akepa
Oahu `akialoa
Oahu nukupu`u
Oahu O`o
Oahu thrush
Passenger pigeon
Pink-headed duck
Pipio or New Zealand thrush
Pohnpei Mountain starling
Raiatea parakeet
Red rail
Red-moustached fruit-dove
Reuinon dodo
Reunion flightless ibis
Rodrigues night-heron
Snail-eating coua
South Island tokoweka
Speckled cormorant
Ula-ai-hawane
Reunion Island starling
Rodrigues Island starling
Rodrigues little owl
Rodrigues parrot
Rodrigues pigeon Rodrigues rail
Rodrigues ring-necked parakeet
Rodrigues solitaire
RyuKyu kingfisher
Ryukyu wood pigeon
Samoan woodhen
Seychelles Alexandrine parrot
Slender-billed grackle
Solomon Island crowned pigeon
Stephen Island wren
Thahiti sandpiper
Townsend's finch
Tristan moorhen
Wake Island rail