What animals have been extinct in the last 100 years?

  • Paradise parrot. Formerly found in eastern Australia, the Paradise parrot has not been seen since 1928.
  • Sicilian wolf.
  • Tasmanian tiger.
  • Xerces blue butterflies.
  • Japanese sea lion.
  • Crescent nail-tail wallaby.
  • Bubal hartebeest.
  • St.

How many marine species have gone extinct in the last 100 years?

15 ocean animals
Marine species have experienced fewer extinctions than their land-based counterparts, but 15 ocean animals have gone extinct in the last 100 years, and 72 more are on the verge of extinction.

What went extinct in 2018?

The Spix’s macaw, made famous by the movie “Rio,” were declared extinct in the wild 2018. The list’s most vibrant bird, Spix’s Macaw — a blue parrot native to Brazil and known for its onscreen role in 20th Century Fox’s “Rio” — is believed to have gone extinct in the wild.

Are dodos extinct?

Extinct
Dodo/Extinction status

How many animal species have gone extinct in the last 10 years?

In the past decade, 467 species have been declared extinct (though they might have gone extinct in decades prior), according to the global authority on species conservation status, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN.

What are the big 5 extinctions?

Top Five Extinctions

  • Ordovician-silurian Extinction: 440 million years ago. Small marine organisms died out.
  • Devonian Extinction: 365 million years ago.
  • Permian-triassic Extinction: 250 million years ago.
  • Triassic-jurassic Extinction: 210 million years ago.
  • Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction: 65 Million Years Ago.

Is the dodo bird still alive?

The last Dodo bird died on the island of Mauritius (located about 1,200 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, in the Indian Ocean) over 300 years ago. The speed at which this pigeon was extirpated made the Dodo the modern icon of human-caused extinction.

What animals are close to extinction 2021?

The 10 most endangered animals in 2021

  • There are now 41,415 species on the IUCN Red List, and 16,306 of them are endangered species threatened with extinction. This is up from 16,118 last year.
  • Javan Rhinocerous.
  • Vaquita.
  • Mountain Gorilla.
  • Tiger.
  • Asian Elephant.
  • Orangutans.
  • Leatherback turtles.