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This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles, including extirpated species. Only a small number of the listed species are globally extinct (most famously the Irish elk, great auk and woolly mammoth). Most of the remainder survive to some extent outside the islands.
List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of European species extinct in the Holocene. List of extinct animals of the British Isles; List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Australia-New Guinea ...
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. [6] [11] The total number of endemic plant species has now grown to 52.
[citation needed] There are thirty-seven extant animal breeds from Scotland, and three that are extinct. The Soay Sheep has prehistoric origins, [citation needed] and the Galloway breed of beef cattle dates back several hundred years. New breeds have also been developed more recently in Scotland, such as the Scottish Fold cat, which dates from ...
A group of three Hebridean sheep rams from the Weatherwax Flock. The sheep kept throughout Britain up to the Iron Age were small, short-tailed, and varied in colour. These survived into the 19th century in the Highlands and Islands as the Scottish Dunface, which had various local varieties, most of which are now extinct (some do survive, such as the Shetland and North Ronaldsay).
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 ...
Scotland hosts the only populations of the Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris) in the British Isles with numbers estimated at between 400 and 2,000 animals, [29] and of the red fox subspecies Vulpes vulpes vulpes, a larger race than the more common V. v. crucigera and which has two distinct forms. [30]
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 ...