1. Thylacine
The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, is widely distributed in Australia and New Guinea.
Defeat in the survival competition with the invasive species Of the Australian Dingo, combined with human hunting, eventually extinction.
In 1933, a thylacine was captured, named Banjamin, and kept at the Herbat Zoo. He died in 1936 due to an administrator's negligence, and there has been no news of a live thylacine since.
After 1936, there were constant reports of thylacine-like animals attacking livestock in New Guinea, and many witnesses claimed to have seen thylacines, but there was not enough evidence to prove that thylacines actually survived.
In 1967, decomposing animal carcasses were found in caves, which were confirmed by experts to be thylacine corpses, but scientists disagreed on whether they were fresh bodies or dried corpses left behind many years ago.
Whether the thylacine is extinct is unknown. But the current scientific community generally believes that the thylacine is extinct.
2. Spotted donkey
The spotted donkey, also known as the pseudo-zebra, is an extinct animal in southern Africa, with a front half of the zebra and a second half of the horse, one of the subspecies of the plain zebra, which became extinct in the late 19th century.
After the Dutch colonized South Africa, the donkey began to be heavily hunted because it competed with herbivorous livestock for grass. Although some donkeys were brought to zoos in Europe, breeding programs failed.
In 1878, the last wild spotted donkey went extinct in the wild in the Orange Free State; on August 12, 1883, the last captive spotted donkey also died in Amsterdam, and now only one photograph of the donkey and 23 furs of the donkey are alive.
3. Barbary Lion
Also known as the North African lion, atlas lion, or Egyptian lion, the Barbary lion once lived mainly in North Africa.
The last Barbary lion recorded in the wild was shot in the Atlas Mountains in 1942.
In the early 1960s, a small percentage of the remaining Barbary lions may still be living in remote mountainous areas, and there may still be Barbary lions in some zoos or circuses.
4. North African antelope
The North African elk was once widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, from Morocco to Egypt.
In 1738, a large population still lived in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. After the French invasion of North Africa, the North African fox was hunted in large numbers, and the population declined sharply.
In 1925, the last North African antelope was shot in Morocco.
5. Pinta Island tortoises
The Pinta Island tortoise is a species of Galapagos tortoise that once inhabited pinta island in Ecuador.
At the end of the 19th century, the Pinta Island tortoise was killed in large numbers, and by the mid-20th century, the species was thought to be extinct.
It wasn't until 1971 that a male individual was discovered, probably the world's last Pinta Island tortoise, named "Lone george."
In 2012, "Lone George" died.
Researchers have tried to mate "Lone george" with other subspecies of tortoises, but all have failed.
In 2012, researchers at Yale University discovered 17 first-generation hybrids on Isabela Island. Since these specimens are juveniles, their parents may still be alive.
6. Caribbean monk seals
The Caribbean monk seal, also known as the West Indian monk seal, is the only seal that lives in the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
In 1494, during his journey to discover the American continent, Columbus described the Caribbean monk seals as "sea wolves" and hunted 8 for food.
Colonists' destruction of Caribbean monk seal habitats and hunter hunting are the main reasons for the extinction of the species.
The last time a Caribbean monk seal was observed was in 1952 on the small island of Serana between Honduras and Jamaica.
Since then, fishermen and divers in Haiti and Jamaica have claimed to have found Caribbean monk seals, but recent studies have failed to find them. Some scholars believe the findings may be just some outliers of crested seals.
7. Passenger pigeons
Passenger pigeons, also known as waiting pigeons and travel pigeons, are a species of pigeon-shaped pigeon in the family Pigeon and the only species in the passenger pigeon genus, which was once the most common bird in the world.
It is estimated that as many as 5 billion passenger pigeons used to live in the United States.
The mass hunting of humans and the destruction of habitats led to a sharp decline in passenger pigeons in numbers over a period of 50 years, almost extinct.
In 1900, the last wild passenger pigeon was shot by a 14-year-old boy in Ohio.
In 1914, martha, the only passenger pigeon confirmed to be alive, died at the Cincinnati Zoo, and the passenger pigeon became extinct.
8. New England Black Grouse
The New England black grouse, also known as the New England prairie grouse, The North American grouse, or the heather, is a subspecies of the prairie hazelnut, possibly a separate species.
New England black grouse is found off the coast of New England, from southern New Hampshire to northern Virginia and prehistoric south to Florida.
New England black grouse was abundant during the colonial period, but was hunted in large numbers for food. By the end of the 18th century, they were too much food for the poor, and they could even be seen in Boston Common.
New England black grouse is rapidly decreasing due to over-hunting. They may have been nearly extinct on the American continent as early as the 1840s.
There were 300 left on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, but by 1890 it had dropped to 120-200 due to hunting and human killings of wildcats. By the end of the 19th century, only about 70 remained. To protect these New England black grouse chickens, the government banned hunting and established a protected area, and its number rose to 2,000.
In the mid-1910s, courtship observation became a local tourist attraction. But a fire in 1916, combined with a harsh winter, a large influx of goshawks, inbreeding, excessive cocks and the spread of blackhead disease, caused the population to decline significantly.
The last New England black harp chicken died in 1932.