extinct animals
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Lemurs of Madagascar
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What do we know?
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Archaeoindris and Babakotia
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Giant aye-aye
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Megaladapis or koala lemur
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Hadropithecus and Archaeolemur
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living lemurs
Marsupials of Australia
Pattern of extinction
Lesser bilby
Pig-footed bandicoot
Broad-faced potoroo
Eastern hare-wallaby
Tasmanian tiger
Mammals of North America
Pygmy mammoth
American Mastodon
Beautiful armadillo
Camelops
Dire wolf
Saber-toothed cat
Mexican grizzly bear
Mammals of Eurasia
Elasmotherium
Irish elk
Stegodon
Aurochs
Tarpan
Caspian tiger
Baiji
Japanese river otter
Pyrenean ibex
Mammals of the oceans
Sea mink
Caribbean monk seal
Japanese sea lion
Steller’s sea cow
Mammals of Africa
Atlas wild ass
North African elephant
Malagasy hippopotamus
Bluebuck
Atlas bear
Extinct or critically endangered bats
Christmas Island pipistrelle
Guam flying fox
Gloomy tube-nosed bat
New Zealand greater short-tailed bat
Lord Howe long-eared bat
Montane monkey-faced bat
Rodents
Instinctive distaste of rats
Lava mouse
Gould’s mouse
White-footed rabbit-rat
Saint Lucia giant rice rat
Jamaican rice rat
Long-tailed hopping mouse
Bulldog rat
Maclear’s rat
St Kilda house mouse
Little Swan Island hutia
Lesser or white-tipped stick-nest rat
Bramble Cay melomys
Birds of North America
Passenger pigeon
Great auk
Labrador duck
Carolina parakeet
Heath hen
Eskimo curlew
Dusky seaside sparrow
Ivory-billed woodpecker
Bachman’s warbler
Birds of Hawaii
And counting
Apteribis
Moa-nalo
Bishop’s ‘ō‘ō
Kāma’o and oloma’o
Kaua‘i ‘akialoa
Akialoa ellisiana
Birds of various islands
Dodo
Elephant bird
Moa
Haast’s eagle
Mauritius owl
Broad-billed parrot
Mascarene grey parakeet
Mauritius blue pigeon
Mascarene coot
Laughing owl
Lyall’s wren
Bugs of the British Isles
Blue stag beetle
Short-haired bumble-bee
Isle of Wight wave
Manchester moth
Norfolk damselfly
Arthropods from all over
Afrocyclops pauliani
Namibcypris costata
Megadytes ducalis
Thermosphaeroma thermophilum
Snails
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Lives of lowly gastropods
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Achatinella apexfulva
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Carelia cochlea
is gone
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Great Saint Helena awl snail
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A small terrestrial air-breathing snail
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Small, fragile tear-drop of a snail
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Once endemic to Brazil
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A very small land snail
Reptiles
Saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise
Delcourt’s giant gecko
Martinique giant ameiva
Cape Verde giant skink
Round Island burrowing boa
Pinta Island tortoise (Lonesome George)
Amphibians
Species
Golden toad
Shrub frog
Harlequin toad
Yunnan Lake newt
Southern gastric-brooding frog
Mount Glorious day frog
Günther’s streamlined frog
Fish
Whitefish of Europe
Brisbane River cod
Burnt-tailed barb
New Zealand grayling
Maryland darter
Tecopa pupfish