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† - A species that is globally extinct * - A species that is known to have been introduced by humans and was never present by natural immigration. Some animals have gone extinct several times and then recolonized. The date given is of the most recent extinction. Species that have been introduced or reintroduced by humans are noted.
The species is otherwise extinct in Scotland and is also flightless, raising the question of how the colony arrived on the island. [156] The northern February red stonefly (Brachyptera putata) has recently lost its range elsewhere in Britain and is now it considered to be a Scottish endemic. [157] [158]
In 2015, a newly formed and endemic species of monkeyflower (Erythranthe peregrina) was identified in Scotland and the Scottish islands. [7] Bromus interruptus is an endemic to England, which was extinct in the wild but has been reintroduced from saved seed.
Some researchers say the Scottish wildcat has interbred with domestic housecats so much that the species is “functionally extinct,” and its true that DNA of remaining Scottish wildcats shows ...
The St Kilda house mouse (Mus musculus muralis) is an extinct subspecies of the house mouse found only on the islands of the St Kilda archipelago of northwest Scotland. [1] They were first described, alongside the St Kilda field mouse, by natural historian Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton in 1899.
Tauros have been bred to be genetically similar to the ancient aurochs, which became extinct 400 years ago. Wild cattle could be introduced in Scotland in bid to resurrect extinct species Skip to ...
Lynx Trust UK are a registered charity campaigning for the reintroduction of lynx to the Kielder Forest in Northumberland. [4] In 2018, a proposal to release six animals was turned down by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, [5] due to findings that the proposal did not "meet the necessary standards set out in the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) guidelines and fails ...
St Kilda, Scotland: A commensal species, it became extinct after the removal of all human inhabitants from the island in 1930. [16] Tyrrhenian field rat: Rhagamys orthodon: Corsica and Sardinia Most recent remains dated to 348 BCE - 283 CE. [9]