Recently Extinct Animals In The World
In the past centuries about 1000 species have become extinct.
Recently extinct animals in the world. The ibex native to the Pyrenees Mountains on France and Spains border was declared extinct in 2000. It was a type of cougar which was endemic to northeastern North America. Marcos Guerra STRI.
West African Black Rhinos. The toad was declared extinct with the last sighting of an adult specimen being recorded in 1989. It appears in the account of Columbus second voyage to America.
The Spixs macaw is a recently extinct animal from near the Rio São Francisco in Bahia Brazil. Spixs macaw in green tree. The Western Black Rhinos.
The vaquita is both the smallest and the most endangered marine mammal in the world. However there are animals which have disappeared from the face of the earth as recently as the last decade. A subspecies of the black rhinos the West African black rhino was genetically different than other species.
One of the best-known recently extinct animals is the thylacine a species once found both on mainland Australia and on the Australian island Tasmania. Spixs macaw also known as the little blue macaw is a macaw native to Brazil. The Spixs macaw is one of the rarest birds in the world.
2020 Splendid Poison Frog is also known as the splendid poison-arrow frog is a position frog native to the eastern end of the Cordillera de Talamanca western Panama. We have prepared a list of 10 recently extinct animals as well as animals who disappeared decades ago - from mammals to bats and all the way down to tortoises. One of the most recent additions to the list of animals that have gone extinct is West African Black Rhinos.