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File:Symbol question.svg ... that Abutilon pitcairnense is extinct in the wild after the single wild plant died in a landslide in 2005? (2011-04-26)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Actinote zikani (specimen pictured) is one of only two butterflies on the IUCN's list of the 100 most threatened species? (2024-10-12)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Archaeoindris (pictured), a recently extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla? (2012-08-27)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs? (2010-03-05)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the villain Scar of Disney's The Lion King, was based on a Barbary lion? (2004-11-05)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Biodiversity Impact Credits seek to stop species extinction? (2024-04-29)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the bluebuck (pictured) was the first large African mammal historically recorded to have become extinct? (2016-07-26)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys was described as the first for a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change? (2019-07-20)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the interrupted brome (pictured) was the first plant species classified as extinct in the wild to be reintroduced in British history? (2008-03-25)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the New Zealand and the Chatham Coot were likely hunted to extinction by the Māori people? (2013-08-11)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the extinct Choiseul Pigeon (pictured), which was endemic to the island of Choiseul in the Solomon Islands, was so tame that the indigenous hunters could pick it up off of its roost? (2013-04-24)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that conservation reliant species, which require continuing wildlife management interventions for their survival, comprise 80% of endangered species in the US? (2009-03-02)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that although the giant fossa, formerly one of the top carnivores of Madagascar, is thought to be extinct, there is some anecdotal evidence of very large living fossas? (2010-06-03)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the rare and endangered flowers Cyanea superba and Cyanea truncata are threatened by feral pigs and rats, while feral goats are threats to Cyperus trachysanthos? (2011-03-11)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Tecopa pupfish was the first animal delisted under the Endangered Species Act because of its extinction? (2011-05-09)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Diego (pictured) "had so much sex he saved his species"? (2020-02-14)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Dogor, an 18,000-year-old canine puppy, may represent a common ancestor of the dog and the wolf? (2020-01-01)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the extinct Australian dromornithids, which included the largest birds known, are related to ducks and geese? (2005-09-28)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the tadpoles of the critically endangered Rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog (pictured) literally eat the skin off their fathers' backs? (2012-03-15)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that every extant individual of the cycad Encephalartos woodii (pictured) is male? (2006-11-20)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that according to The Sportsman's Repository, English Water Spaniel is the best dog for hunting waterfowl? (2010-02-06)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination, quarantine, and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease? (2007-12-06)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Geograpsus severnsi is the first crab species known to have become extinct? (2011-05-27)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus (pictured), were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs? (2010-02-28)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Hare Indian dog, now extinct, was not known to bark, but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the breed was introduced to Europe? (2009-02-23)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle, 500 miles from the sea? (2010-11-01)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that less than 50 years after being discovered, Heterelmis stephani is now presumed extinct? (2016-11-30)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Beth Shapiro's book How to Clone a Mammoth discusses the science involved in resurrection biology and how one would resurrect a mammoth? (2016-04-08)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel? (2005-09-12)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved? (2007-07-02)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that no fungi or algae are listed as endangered or threatened by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board? (2020-02-04)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Long-legged Bunting, an extinct species of Bunting, was one of the few flightless species in the Passerines order? (2008-08-08)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that no type specimen of the Lord Howe Island Pigeon exists, as it was described from a painting (pictured) by George Raper? (2008-12-17)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that a stone relief (pictured), now accepted as an extinct Marquesan Dog, was claimed by Thor Heyerdahl to depict a llama to bolster his theory that Polynesia was settled from South America? (2017-03-31)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Paul S. Martin and Paul Sidney Martin both worked as anthropologists at the University of Arizona in the early 1970s? (2010-10-01)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag? (2020-05-22)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas? (2010-03-05)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Microgale macpheei is the only known recently extinct tenrec? (2010-05-25)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Neanderthals went fishing? (2020-05-01)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s? (2006-10-21)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the extinct New Zealand Little Bittern (pictured) was described as always being found alone and standing for hours in one place? (2009-09-23)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that although the extinct Norfolk Island Boobook was last sighted in 1996, its genes live on in the hybrid descendants of the last living female bird? (2009-04-12)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that although the Norfolk Island Pigeon was hunted to extinction by humans, its first hunters disappeared from Norfolk Island before it did? (2008-12-14)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Amerigo Vespucci may have seen the extinct rodent Noronhomys, otherwise known only from bone remains, on a voyage to the islands of Fernando de Noronha in 1503? (2009-11-20)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the extinct Mexican rice rat Oryzomys nelsoni has only been collected once? (2010-03-22)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the name Pachylemur, now used for a type of extinct giant lemur, was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between pachyderms and lemurs? (2012-02-14)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that in 19th-century America, any amateur hunter could kill six passenger pigeons in a single shot (shooting pictured)? (2016-01-25)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the shrub Persoonia laxa was found in Sydney but is now presumed extinct? (2016-02-03)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta has variously been considered a thrush, a starling and a honeyeater? (2010-11-04)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Red Deer Cave people are the youngest prehistoric people discovered who do not appear similar to modern humans? (2012-03-17)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the Aldabra banded snail from the Seychelles died out due to climate change? (2009-10-23)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the riverine rabbit was thought to be extinct for more than 30 years? (2025-05-24)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that York radiate groundsel (Senecio eboracensis) is a hybrid plant species thought to have evolved suddenly within the last 300 years? (2007-07-20)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1 September 1964, two days after they were captured? (2010-10-17)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that the straight-tusked elephant was one of the largest land mammals ever? (2024-12-31)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs, referred to as subfossil lemurs, that weighed between 10 and 200 kg (22 and 441 lb)? (2010-06-12)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Captain James Cook thought the now-extinct Tahitian Dog of the Society Islands tasted like English lamb? (2017-03-26)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that endangered arthropods (example pictured) are becoming extinct in such large numbers that many are not catalogued? (2007-02-05)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that over the history of Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction research, scientists have attributed the demise of the dinosaurs to their large size, small brains, or, more likely, a meteor impact (depicted)? (2017-01-14)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Sloan’s Urania (Urania sloanus) (pictured), a Jamaican day flying moth of the Uraniidae family, was last reported in 1894 or 1895? (2007-10-11)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Vanvoorstia bennettiana is the only protist on the IUCN's Red List? (2007-07-16)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that Vorombe titan, an extinct elephant bird from Madagascar, shared its habitat with dwarf hippos, giant lemurs, and giant tortoises? (2018-12-07)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that The World's 100 Most Threatened Species includes one (pictured) with only five surviving mature individuals? (2012-09-25)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that one of only five extant Rafetus swinhoei soft-shelled turtles is thought by residents of Hanoi, Vietnam to be the magical Golden Turtle God named Kim Qui? (2006-12-13)
File:Symbol question.svg ... that zebros were not zebras? (2025-09-03)

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Dusky Seaside Sparrow

Dusky Seaside Sparrow
Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus)

Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus)
Perameles gunni

Perameles gunni

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File:Globe current.svg Alaotra grebe (2010-05-26)
File:Globe current.svg Chinese paddlefish (2022-07-22)
File:Globe current.svg Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (2010-03-06)
File:Globe current.svg Dinosaur (2020-03-18)
File:Globe current.svg Homo floresiensis (2009-11-23)
File:Globe current.svg Hula painted frog (2013-06-05)
File:Globe current.svg Neanderthal (2010-05-07)
File:Globe current.svg Pinta Island tortoise (2012-06-24)
File:Globe current.svg Sudan (rhinoceros) (2018-03-20)
File:Globe current.svg Vaquita (2017-02-06)
File:Globe current.svg Waitaha penguin (2008-11-21)

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Archaeoindris (2022-01-23)
Babakotia (2018-09-06)
Bluebuck (2016-11-17)
Broad-billed parrot (2014-07-14)
Chicxulub crater (2008-01-08)
Choiseul pigeon (2015-09-29)
Columbian mammoth (2016-01-29)
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (2008-03-13)
Cryptoprocta spelea (2022-09-10)
Cuban macaw (2018-12-17)
Dinosaur (2006-01-01)
Dire wolf (2017-07-17)
Dodo (2013-07-06)
Echo parakeet (2019-06-20)
Golden swallow (2020-01-30)
Great auk (2012-07-03)
Guadeloupe amazon (2021-01-28)
Homo floresiensis (2004-12-24)
Hoopoe starling (2021-10-26)
Huia (2013-02-06)
King Island emu (2018-06-04)
Laysan honeycreeper (2024-09-03)
Lesser Antillean macaw (2018-04-09)
Mascarene grey parakeet (2019-01-30)
Mascarene parrot (2018-10-27)
Mauritius blue pigeon (2013-01-02)
Mauritius sheldgoose (2023-07-03)
Megalodon (2018-07-22)
Mesopropithecus (2018-11-11)
Newton's parakeet (2017-02-17)
Noronhomys (2019-07-15)
Passenger pigeon (2016-09-01)
Quagga (2014-08-12)
Red rail (2016-06-02)
Réunion ibis (2020-08-28)
Réunion swamphen (2022-12-20)
Rodrigues night heron (2023-11-06)
Rodrigues parrot (2020-01-10)
Rodrigues solitaire (2019-10-28)
Rodrigues starling (2020-04-03)
St. Croix macaw (2020-11-12)
Sea mink (2017-11-22)
Seychelles parakeet (2023-06-29)
Smilodon (2017-01-03)
Spotted green pigeon (2017-09-27)
Steller's sea cow (2017-09-02)
Subfossil lemur (2018-04-29)
Tahiti rail (2019-09-13)
Thylacine (2008-12-29)
White swamphen (2022-06-08)
Woolly mammoth (2014-10-24)
Rodrigues rail (2020-07-31)

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Timeline of the far future (2014-11-10)

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Dusky Seaside Sparrow (2024-08-19)

Dusky Seaside Sparrow (2024-08-19)
Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus) (2024-11-02)

Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus) (2024-11-02)
Perameles gunni (2012-03-01)

Perameles gunni (2012-03-01)

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