Lists of extinct species

This page features lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in the Earth's ecosystem or natural disasters, to human influences on nature by the overuse of natural resources, hunting and destruction of natural habitats.

In actual theoretical practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last 50 years of current time is textually called "extinct".

Plants

• List of recently extinct plants

Animals

By region

• List of African animals extinct in the Holocene
  • List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene
  • List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene
  • List of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of European species extinct in the Holocene
• List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
  • List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene
  • List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene
  • List of Hawaiian animals extinct in the Holocene
  • List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene
• List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene

Fossil taxa

• List of dinosaur genera
• List of fossil bird genera
• List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
• List of fossil primates
• Lists of prehistoric fish

Recent extinction

• List of bird extinctions by year
• List of extinct dog breeds
• List of recently extinct amphibians
• List of recently extinct arthropods
• List of recently extinct fishes
• List of recently extinct insects
• List of recently extinct invertebrates
• List of recently extinct mammals
• List of recently extinct molluscs
• List of recently extinct reptiles

See also

• Category:Extinct species
• Category:Species made extinct by human activities
• Category:Endangered species by reason they are threatened
• Extinction
• Extinction event
• Endangered species
• Extinct (disambiguation)
• Lists of organisms by population
• Lists of animals
• List of lists of lists §§ Natural and physical sciences​ and List of lists of lists

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Extinction

Phenomena

• Background extinction rate
• Coextinction
• De-extinction
• Ecological extinction
• Extinct in the wild
• Functional extinction
• Genetic pollution
• Lazarus taxon
• Local extinction
• Pseudoextinction

Models

• Extinction vortex

Causes

• Climate variability and change
• Genetic erosion
• Invasive species
• Habitat destruction
• Human impact on the environment
• Muller's ratchet
• Mutational meltdown
• Overabundant species
• Overexploitation
• Overshoot
• Paradox of enrichment

Theories
and concepts

• Extinction debt
• Extinction risk from climate change
• Extinction threshold
• Field of Bullets
• Hypothetical species
• Latent extinction risk
• Living fossil

Extinction events

Major	Ordovician–Silurian Late Devonian Permian–Triassic Triassic–Jurassic Cretaceous–Paleogene Holocene Timeline
Other	Great Oxidation End-Ediacaran End-Botomian Dresbachian Cambrian–Ordovician Ireviken Mulde Lau Carboniferous Olson's End-Capitanian Carnian Pluvial Toarcian End-Jurassic or Tithonian Aptian Cenomanian-Turonian Eocene–Oligocene Middle Miocene Pliocene–Pleistocene Quaternary

Extinct species

• Lists of extinct species
• IUCN Red List extinct species

Organizations

• International Union for Conservation of Nature
• IUCN Species Survival Commission
• Extinction Rebellion
• Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

See also

• Anthropocene
• Decline in amphibian populations
• Decline in insect populations
• Extinction symbol
• Human extinction
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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