![]() The last known sighting of the bird was in 1985 and experts have now confirmed its demise, killed off by a combination of poaching and predatory fish. The Alaotra grebe, also known as Delacour’s little or rusty grebe, is an extinct grebe endemic to Lake Alaotra and its surrounding lakes in Madagascar. Poachers killed them solely for their horns, for use in Chinese medicine and as decoration in the Middle East. The main reason the West African black rhino is extinct is because of poachers or illegal hunters. The only two remaining northern white rhino are kept under 24-hour guard in Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. It was declared extinct by the IUCN in 2011.īut the western black rhino and northern white rhinos have recently become extinct in the wild. The western black rhinoceros or West African black rhinoceros is an extinct subspecies of the black rhinoceros. The Pinta Island tortoise, thought to have gone extinct with the death of Lonesome George in 2012, is not extinct as scientists found 31 tortoises on Isabella Island in the Galapagos Island chain that are believed to be partially descended from the Pinta Island tortoise but are functionally extinct in their natural environment. The Pinta Island tortoise, also known as the Pinta giant tortoise or Abingdon Island tortoise, is a species of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuador’s Pinta Island that is most likely extinct. #4 Pinta Giant Tortoise ( Estimated extinct 2012) Other causes may include habitat degradation. The likely cause of the baiji’s decline is the use of fishing nets with hooks that snag and drown the dolphins as bycatch. Since Baiji means ‘white fin’ in Chinese, it means ‘white-finned dolphin’. The baiji is a possibly extinct species of freshwater dolphin, and is thought to be the first dolphin species driven to extinction due to the impact of humans. #3 Baiji Dolphin ( Estimated extinct 2020) The melomnys’s 10-acre habitat, Bramble Cay, sat less than 10 feet above sea level. ![]() Scientists have determined that the Bramble cay melomys, named after an island of the same name went extinct due to human-driven climate change. The Bramble Cay melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat, is a recently extinct species of rodent native to the isolated Bramble Cay (the northernmost point of land of Australia), a vegetated coral cay located at the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Human activities such as logging, expansion of urban and suburban areas, and the construction and use of rail lines contributed significantly to the frog’s extinction. The splendid poison frog or poison-arrow frog was a species of poison dart frog endemic to the end of western Panama.ĭeforestation and habitat degradation are the primary threats to the splendid poison frog. Summary of Top 10 Extinct Animals #1 Splendid Poison frog ( extinct 2020). The Top 10 Fastest Animals in The World.Discovering The Potency Of King Cobra Bites. ![]() ![]()
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