This is my prequel to an earlier blog, Say Bye-Bye: Nearly Extinct Animals. It is my list of some recently extinct animals, in order of their approximate final exit. Note that the Black Rhino is on both lists, as the species bit the dust very, very recently.

Aurochs (a wild cattle) – 1627
Elephant Bird – late 17th century
Dodo Bird – 1755
Steller’s Sea Cow – 1768
Giant Moa – 1773
Bluebuck – 1799
Great Auk – 1844
Atlas Bear – 1840s
South African Cape Lion – 1858
Falkland Island Wolf – 1876
Tarpan (Eurasian wild horse) – 1879
Quagga (a zebra) – 1883
Hokkaido Wolf – 1889
Sea Mink – 1894
Japanese Wolf – 1905
California Grizzly Bear – 1911
Passenger Pigeon – 1914
Carolina Parakeet – 1918
Burchell’s Zebra – 1918
Barbary Lion – 1922
Bubal Hartebeest – 1923
Syrian Wild Ass – 1928
Newfoundland Wolf – 1930
Tasmanian Tiger (aka Tasmanian Wolf) – 1936
Bali Tiger – 1937)
Caspian Tiger (aka Persian Tiger) – 1950
Queen of Sheba’s Gazelle – 1951
Japanese Sea Lion – 1951
Caribbean Monk Seal – 1952
Blue Pike – 1962
Javan Tiger – 1976
Tecopa Pupfish – 1978
Kama’o (a Hawaiian thrush) – 1989
Golden Toad – 1992
Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus Monkey – 2000
Pyrenean Ibex – 2000
Holdridge’s Toad – 2004
Black-faced Honeycreeper – 2004
Baiji River Dolphin – 2006
West African Black Rhino – 20 minutes ago

Cloning aside, all samples of these critters have passed their expiration date. Next!

O.C. DeeDee

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