Animals that went extinct in the last 100 years
The top 3 according to 81 votes from people: Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) · Golden toad · Pinta Island tortoise. (Updated Sep 22, 2022.)
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?
Top 13
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1
Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger)
The last one died in a Hobart zoo in 1936.
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2
Golden toad
The bright orange toad of Costa Rica, last seen in 1989.
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3
Pinta Island tortoise
Lonesome George, the last of his kind, died in 2012.
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4
Baiji (Chinese river dolphin)
Declared functionally extinct in 2006, the first dolphin wiped out by humans.
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5
Sicilian wolf
The last ones were shot near Palermo in the 1920s.
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6
Japanese sea lion
Hunted down to a handful of animals by the 1950s.
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7
Crescent nail-tail wallaby
Wiped out by foxes and cats by the 1960s.
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8
Caribbean monk seal
Last confirmed sighting in 1952.
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9
Guam flying fox
A fruit bat last seen in 1968.
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Barbary lion
The great North African lion, gone from the wild in the 1920s.
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11
Paradise parrot
An Australian parrot last seen in 1929.
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12
Caspian tiger
Lost by the 1950s as its habitat was drained for farming.
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13
Western black rhinoceros
Poached for its horn; declared extinct in 2011.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (1)
The thylacine one always gets me. We had footage of the last one and still let it happen.