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Not related to tigers, the creature had the appearance of a medium-to-large-size dog it weighed 30kg with a nose to tail length of almost 2 metres but dark stripes gave it a tiger-like appearance. It is believed to have been hunted to extinction — this was encouraged by bounties — but human encroachment into its habitat, the introduction of dogs and disease could also have contributed. The last wild Tasmanian Tiger was killed between and , with the last captive one dying in Hobart Zoo, Tasmania in Named after George Steller, a naturalist who discovered the creature in , Stellers Sea Cow was a large herbivorous mammal.

It is believed that Stellers Sea Cow which grew to at least metres and weighed around tons, inhabited the Near Islands, southwest of Alaska and the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea. It is believed that the mammal was tame and spent most of its time eating kelp; this, and the fact that it was unable to submerge its enormous body, is possibly what made it vulnerable to human hunters.

A large and flightless bird found in the North Atlantic and as far south as Northern Spain. It had an average height of cm and weighed about 5kg. The Great Auk was a powerful swimmer which helped it to hunt underwater for food.

The last colony of Auks lived on the island of Eldey and by they had all been killed. The last of these birds was killed by three men who caught it on St Kilda, Scotland in When a large storm surged, they believed that the auk was a witch and was causing the storm, so they killed it.

An extinct flightless bird that inhabited Mauritius, the Dodo was about one metre tall and may have weighed 10—18 kg. It is presumed the bird became flightless due to the availability of abundant food sources seeds, roots and fallen fruits and a relative absence of predators. Dutch sailors first recorded a mention of the dodo in The bird was hunted to extinction by sailors and their domesticated animals, and invasive species.

The last widely accepted sighting of a Dodo was in An enormous mammal, believed to be closely related to the modern-day elephant. I'm about as chill as they come. I have work to do, but I try to take things in stride. Yeah, I'm kind of a sitting duck. No, I think my competition respects my abilities.

They think of me that way, but they really shouldn't underestimate me. Nope, I'm the one who thinks of my competition that way. Nuclear war. Global warming. Volcanic eruption. Not at all. I'll defend myself if necessary, but I prefer to keep things very chill. I'm pretty much always aggressive. Only if you mess with someone I love. That doesn't really sound like me.

I'm much more likely to support someone who is feeling weak. I do this constantly. It's a dog-eat-dog world. I'm actually the one whose weakness people tend to take advantage of. I'd be an apex predator. I'd be way down at the bottom.

I wouldn't be at the very bottom, but I'd be below the middle. I suppose I'd be pretty high up on the food chain. I'd rather stay out of the limelight if I can. That sounds terrible to me. If it happens, it happens. That is what I'm dreaming about.

I'm not a weakling, but I'm not a weightlifter either. I'm stronger than you might think. I'm actually pretty weak. I'm a total beast. I'm not going to win any races, that's for sure. I run like molasses in January. I run like the wind. If it's an emergency, I can move pretty fast.

Early morning. MentalFloss reports that Wisconsin was home to largest known nesting site in the late s. Cause of Extinction: humans hunted the pigeon and consumed it to the point of extinction with the last known bird dying in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo in The Quagga was native to South Africa and went extinct in the late 19th century.

For a long time, the quagga was thought to be its own species before it was discovered that it was closely related to the Plains Zebra and was, in fact, a subspecies of the zebra. Quagga's were interesting in appearance quite literally looking the mashup between two animals—a zebra in the front thanks to the famous zebra stripes adorning this part of its body, and a horse in the rear due to the lack of stripes in this area.

Scientists are trying to resurrect the quagga and have seen some success via reverse engineering by selectively breeding zebras who carry quagga genes. The Pyrenean Ibex officially went extinct in , before being 'resurrected' nearly a decade later in Scientists used DNA taken from preserved epidermal samples to create a clone of a female Pyrenean Ibex, which was able to make it through gestation and even birth before dying shortly after of lung deformities. The golden toad is not the only species to disappear in the past 40 years, but it just might be the brightest.

The small toad was last seen in in a Costa Rican rainforest before being declared extinct in It is believed that Chytridiomycosis, a fatal skin disease, decimated this toad population that was already vulnerable thanks to what Science is calling a " limited habitat and small population.

Cause of Extinction: pollution, global warming, and chytrid skin infections led to the extinction of this species. One of several subspecies of leopard, the Zanzibar leopard made its home on the Zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania. It's still unclear whether this large cat is technically extinct—there are occasional unconfirmed sightings.

Cause of Extinction: the leopard went extinct thanks to the belief that these animals were kept by witches; for this reason, locals aggressively hunted them. It didn't help that the government was in on the campaign to exterminate the creatures. In the mid-'90s there was a short-lived conservation effort but it was deemed too little, too late. Update: In , Animal Planet released footage of what it identified as a Zanzibar Leopard, but those claims have yet to be confirmed.

A native of Maui, Hawaii, the Po'ouli, or Black-faced Honeycreeper, was only discovered in the s. The birds inhabited the southwestern slope of Haleakala volcano. But the population declined rapidly, and by there were only three known Po'ouli left. Efforts to mate the remaining birds failed and the species was formally declared extinct seven years later. Cause of Extinction: habitat loss, along with disease, predators and a decline in its food source—native tree snails—are all seen as reasons for the bird's demise.

Cause of Extinction: loss of habitat due to construction as well as pollution from agricultural fertilizers are two major causes of the species' decline. While it hasn't been officially declared extinct, the butterfly hasn't been seen for decades. The Carolina parakeet was the only bird of its kind native to the eastern portion of the U. Cause of Extinction: the Smithsonian notes that while a specific reason doesn't explain the parakeet's extinction, it's likely that deforestation and disease are what offed the brightly colored birds.

It also didn't help that their feathers were coveted fashion fixtures for women's hats. The majestic West African black rhino was declared extinct in , after conservationists failed to find any in their last remaining habitat in Cameroon.

The West African black rhino was one of four subspecies of rhinoceros. The photo of the one pictured here was taken in while the rhino was under sedation for a routine horn trimming this is a preventive measure to deter poachers.

Cause of Extinction: poachers hunted the rhino for its horn, which is believed by some in Yemen and China to possess aphrodisiacal powers, leading to their extinction. The Tecopa pupfish, a native of the hot springs of the Mojave Desert, has the distinction of being the first animal declared extinct under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act of The pupfish's decline was precipitated when its natural habitat was encroached upon by developers.

The Falkland Islands wolf went extinct in the late s and was also known as the Antarctic wolf and the Falkland Islands fox. These wolves were native to the Falklands off of Argentina and were quite isolated from the world until humans reached the islands and hunted them kind of easily because the wolves were so friendly. Scientists believe these wolves fed on penguins and other ground-nesting birds in addition to seal pups.

Similar in appearance to the Sumatran tiger, the Javan tiger was native to the Indonesian island of Java. In the s they were so common they were considered pests by island natives, but as the island was developed their population dwindled.

By the s, only 20 tigers remained. Cause of Extinction: loss of habitat and agricultural development led to severe population decline. Conservation efforts in the s and '50s were unsuccessful due to a lack of adequate land and planning. Native to Round Island, a tiny island off the coast of Mauritius, the Round Island Burrowing Boa preferred to live on the topsoil layers of volcanic slopes.

It was once found on several other islands around Mauritius, but its population had dwindled by the s, and it could only be found on Round Island after It was last seen in