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Category: Extinct sharks. ... Prehistoric sharks (6 C, 9 P) This page was last edited on 9 December 2022, at 13:16 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 65 extinct fish species, 87 possibly extinct fish species, and six extinct in the wild fish species. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cartilaginous fish
Location of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The O‘ahu ‘ō‘ō ( Moho apicalis ) is among dozens of bird species that became extinct after the human settlement of Hawaii. This is a list of Hawaiian animal species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before ...
Stethacanthus is an extinct genus of shark-like cartilaginous fish which lived from the Late Devonian to Late Carboniferous epoch, dying out around 298.9 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Australia , Asia , Europe and North America .
Xenacanthida (or Xenacanthiformes) is an order or superorder of extinct shark-like chondrichthyans (cartilaginous fish) known from the Carboniferous to Triassic. They were native to freshwater, marginal marine and shallow marine habitats. [1] Some xenacanths may have grown to lengths of 5 m (16 ft). [2]
Oʻahu Forest National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2000 to protect fish, wildlife, and plants which are listed as threatened or endangered species. [2] The refuge encompasses approximately 4,525 acres (18.31 km 2 ) and is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Bringing back the sawfish. Florida adopted protections in 1992 and the U.S. population of sawfish was the nation’s first native marine fish listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2003. By ...
Cosmopolitodus is an extinct genus of mackerel shark that lived between thirty and one million years ago during the late Oligocene to the Early Pleistocene epochs.Its type species is Cosmopolitodus hastalis, the broad-tooth mako (other common names include the extinct giant mako and broad-tooth white shark).