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He died shortly thereafter. [5] [6] Topsy the elephant: 4 January 1903: The elephant was executed by poisoning, electrocution, and strangulation. A 74-second film of the electrocution was recorded and preserved, possibly the first death captured on film. [7] [8] Mary the elephant: 13 September 1916
These are a series of incomplete lists of unusual deaths, unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
The six-year-old died during an MRI scan at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, after an oxygen tank was magnetically pulled into the machine and fractured his skull. [6] [7] Brittanie Cecil: 18 March 2002: The 13-year-old died from her injuries at an NHL game after a deflected puck struck her in the left temple. She was the ...
It is also possible that he died of chocolate poisoning" - No source on the chocolate poisoning, and dying from cold is hardly unusual. "James Otis, American patriot, struck and killed by lightning." - Nothing unusual there: lightning kills about 500-700 people a year. In the world it's said to be 1171 a year. However in a year something like ...
The list below largely follows Darrel Frost's Amphibian Species of the World (ASW), Version 5.5 (31 January 2011). Another classification, which largely follows Frost, but deviates from it in part is the one of AmphibiaWeb , which is run by the California Academy of Sciences and several of universities.
The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomina dubia), or were not formally published (nomina nuda), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered amphibians. Modern forms are excluded from this list.
The discovery of the new amphibian species could provide some answers to how frogs and salamanders evolved to get their special characteristics today, the authors wrote in the paper.
Amphibian species (IUCN, 2016-2) 6492 extant species have been evaluated; 4925 of those are fully assessed [a] 2860 are not threatened at present [b] 2063 to 3630 are threatened [c] 35 to 148 are extinct or extinct in the wild: 33 extinct (EX) species [d] 2 extinct in the wild (EW) 113 possibly extinct [CR(PE)] 0 possibly extinct in the wild ...