What Animals are Extinct?

Animal extinction is a process that can happen naturally but it also happens when humans demand resources from these animals or those that may be present in their environment.  Destruction of rainforests, poaching, wildlife trade, global warming and pollution all are causes of animal extinction.

Extinct Reptiles:

1. Ratas Island Lizard


2. Round Island Burrowing boa


3. Saddle-backed Mauritius giant tortoise


4. Jamaica giant galliwasp


5. Planiplastron

Extinct Mammals:

1. Tasmanian wolf


2. Queen of Sheba’s gazelle


3. Marianas flying fox


4. Jamaican monkey


5. Large sloth lemur


6. Desert bandicoot


7. Florida naked-tailed rat


8. Atlantic  gray whale


9. Barbados raccoon


10. Arabian gazelle

Extinct Birds

1. Dodo


2. Pink-headed duck


3. Townsend’s finch


4. Raiatea parakeet


5. Mauritian duck


6. New Zealand quail


7. Grand Cayman thrush


8. Black mamo


9. Hawaiian rail


10. Labrador duck

Prehistoric Mammals

1. Woolly mammoth


2. Sabertooth cat


3. Giant beaver


4. American camel


5. Woolly rhinoceros

Prehistoric  Reptiles

1. Tyrannosaurus rex


2. Stegoceras


3. Brachiosaur


4. Avaceratops


5. Camptosaur