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The taxonomic status of this extinct form cannot be resolved until more material is found, however. Anatini – dabbling ducks Extinct species of extant genera. Mareca – wigeons Amsterdam wigeon, Mareca marecula (Amsterdam Island, South Indian Ocean, c. 1800) Anas. Saint Paul Island duck, Anas sp. (St. Paul Island, South Indian Ocean, c. 1800)
Quaternary extinction event of large animals. Many ice age megafauna go extinct – Giant ground sloth, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave bear, giant short faced bears, cave lion, and the last of sabre-toothed cats. Mammoths go extinct in Eurasia and North America, but persist on Wrangel Island. Natufian Shaman burial [190] and earliest known ...
1.17.5.3 Tribe Isolobodontini. ... Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit ...
Tanystropheus (Greek: τανυ ~ 'long' + στροφευς 'hinged') is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile which lived during the Triassic Period in Europe, Asia, and North America. It is recognisable by its extremely elongated neck, longer than the torso and tail combined.
Prehistorically extinct species of extant and recently extinct genera. Slender-billed greenfinch, Chloris aurelioi (Tenerife, Canary Islands) Trias greenfinch, Chloris triasi (La Palma, Canary Islands) Greater Azores bullfinch, Pyrrhula crassa (Graciosa, Azores) [32] Kauaʻi finch, Telespiza persecutrix (Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, Hawaiian Islands)
The Japanese sea lion and Caribbean monk seal disappeared in the 1950s, the most recent aquatic mammals to become extinct. Several land-based mammal species and subspecies have disappeared since then. If the baiji is extinct, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus) has become the most endangered marine mammal species. Some scientists retain hope for the ...
Makara (Hindu mythology) – half terrestrial animal in the frontal part (stag, deer, or elephant) and half aquatic animal in the hind part (usually of a fish, a seal, or a snake, though sometimes a peacock or even a floral tail is depicted) Mug-wamp - (Canadian) giant sturgeon monster said to inhabit Lake Temiskaming in Ontario. Name is of ...
Sudden or short-term die-offs must also be distinguished from much longer-term extinction events, which have occurred naturally for countless species throughout the Earth's history and for many extant species are often demonstrated to be ongoing, if gradually, in the modern era.