This page features lists of extinct species, organisms that have become extinct, either in the wild or completely.
- Lists of extinct animals
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- List of extinct birds
- List of extinct mammals
- List of extinct cetaceans
- List of extinct arachnids
- List of extinct insects
- List of extinct butterflies
- List of extinct plants
Read more about Extinct Species: International Union For Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Famous quotes containing the words extinct and/or species:
“One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like heroes and woman-worshipping Don Juans, and rabid equality-mongrels. The old, hardy, indomitable male is gone.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.... Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another—cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.”
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