# Animals that went extinct in the last 100 years

Hunting, habitat loss and disease wiped them out within living memory: the Tasmanian tiger, the Barbary lion, the golden toad, Lonesome George. Which loss do you find saddest?

- 81 votes · 13 items
- Sep 22, 2022 · gracesf
- https://even.best/en/l/2405/animals-that-went-extinct-in-the-last-100-years

## Top 13

1. **Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — The last one died in a Hobart zoo in 1936.
2. **Golden toad** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — The bright orange toad of Costa Rica, last seen in 1989.
3. **Pinta Island tortoise** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Lonesome George, the last of his kind, died in 2012.
4. **Baiji (Chinese river dolphin)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Declared functionally extinct in 2006, the first dolphin wiped out by humans.
5. **Sicilian wolf** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — The last ones were shot near Palermo in the 1920s.
6. **Japanese sea lion** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Hunted down to a handful of animals by the 1950s.
7. **Crescent nail-tail wallaby** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Wiped out by foxes and cats by the 1960s.
8. **Caribbean monk seal** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Last confirmed sighting in 1952.
9. **Guam flying fox** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A fruit bat last seen in 1968.
10. **Barbary lion** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — The great North African lion, gone from the wild in the 1920s.
11. **Paradise parrot** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — An Australian parrot last seen in 1929.
12. **Caspian tiger** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Lost by the 1950s as its habitat was drained for farming.
13. **Western black rhinoceros** (0 · ▲3 ▼3) — Poached for its horn; declared extinct in 2011.

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