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mammoth
Animals; Animals

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch ...

great auk
Animals; Animals

The penguin-like great auk was a large, flightless seabird once native to the entire North Atlantic Ocean, from Greenland and eastern Canada to the British Isles and the westernmost coasts of Europe. ...

heath hen
Animals; Animals

The North American heath hen was also the subject of an early protective bill, introduced to New York State legislature in 1791, but it too failed to save the species from extinction. Heath hens were ...

japanese sea lion
Animals; Animals

The 8-foot-long Japanese sea lion—an even larger cousin of the Californian sea lion—was once native to the Sea of Japan and bred in vast numbers along the beaches of the Japanese islands and the ...

passenger pigeon
Animals; Animals

Until as recently as the early 1800s, the passenger pigeon was still considered the most numerous bird in all of North America. Individual flocks could contain in excess of a billion individual ...

quagga
Animals; Animals

The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra that lived in South Africa until the nineteenth century. It was long thought to be a distinct species, but genetic ...

delalande's coua
Animals; Animals

Delalande's coua (Coua delalandei), also known as snail-eating coua and Delalande's coucal, is an extinct species of non-parasitic cuckoo from Madagascar. It only was known to science as an extant ...

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