Portal:Extinct and endangered species
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- ...that the song The Lord God Bird by Sufjan Stevens is about the possibly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker.
- ...that the Vaquita is the rarest cetacean in the world with an estimated 90 individuals.
- ...that the Chihuahuan vole was the largest subspecies of the Meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) and that is possibly extinct as no lifesigns were recorded in its only known habitat in the Ojo Galeana swamp in Chihuahua, Mexico since 1998.
- ...that 9,300 year old fossil remains of the Steppe bison (Bison priscus) were unearthed in 2011?
- ...that the Mastodon became extinct by climate change and not by overhunting as previously thought?
- ...that only 2500 people lived on New Zealand when the last moa species became extinct in the 15th century.
- ...that Walton Ford, a famous wildlife artist created a painting about the extinct Elephant Bird.
- ...that the 24-rayed Sunstar Heliaster solaris from the Galapagos waters died out during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation event in 1983/1984
- ... that the Christmas Island Pipistrelle is possibly extinct after a survey in 2009 has failed to locate any individuals.
- ... that the Banggai Crow was rediscovered on Peleng in 2007 after it was only known by two museum specimens from the late 19th century.
- ... that the extinct flightless Snipe-rail had the smallest wings of all known rail species in proportion to its body size.
- ... that only 300 copies were published of Walter Rothschild's book Extinct Birds.
- ... that Cave Lions were about 25 percent larger than the modern African Lions and Asiatic lions.
- 21 May 2016 Last seen in 2007, the blue-eyed ground dove was rediscovered and photographed for the first time in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
- 9 May 2016 An extinct snipe named Gallinago kakuki is described from fossil remains discovered on Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
- 17 April 2016 Bush Heritage Australia has established Pullen Pullen, the first ever reserve for the night parrot.
- 21 March 2016 An extinct lava tube-bat named Synemporion keana is described from fossil and subfossil remains discovered on Hawaii.
- 20 March 2016 Last seen in 1998 the chameleon species Rhampholeon chapmanorum has been rediscovered in Mali.
- 14 March 2016 Fifteen individuals of the Borneo rhinoceros have been rediscovered in Kalimantan.
- 21 February 2016 The last individual of Partula faba died in a tank in the Bristol Zoo.
- 14 February 2016 Last seen in 1979 the Pondicherry shark has been spotted and photographed in the Menik Ganga river on Sri Lanka in January 2016.
- 3 February 2016 Lamyctes leleupi and Dicranomyia basilewskyana, a centipede and a cranefly from Saint Helena, have been rediscovered after 50 years.
- 21 January 2016 Philautus jerdonii, now placed in the newly described genus Frankixalus, a tree frog from West Bengal, India, has been rediscovered in 2007, after it was thought to be extinct since 1870.
- 20 January 2016 After the death of the Hoan Kiem turtle in Hanoi, Vietnam, the total number of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle dropped to three individuals
- 24 November 2015 Raorchestes flaviventris, a bush frog from the Western Ghats, India, has been rediscovered in 2014, after it was thought to be extinct since 1882.
- 22 November 2015 After the death of Nola the entire population of the northern white rhinoceros dropped to three individuals.
- 14 October 2015 The Hispaniola woodcock (Scolopax brachycarpa) is described from subfossil remains.
- 30 September 2015 The Chihuahua dwarf crayfish (Cambarellus chihuahuae), listed as extinct by the IUCN in 2010, has been rediscovered.
- 30 September 2015 The Rodrigues bulbul (Hypsipetes cowlesi) is described from subfossil remains.
- 28 September 2015 The fossil remains of a woolly mammoth were unearthed by a farmer in a soy bean field near Chelsea, Michigan.
- 23 September 2015 Tyto cravesae, a fossil giant barn-owl from Cuba is described from Late Quaternary remains.
- 15 September 2015 The newly described extinct Imber's petrel (Pterodroma imberi) from the Chatham Islands was named in honour of the late New Zealand ornithologist Mike Imber (1940–2011).
- 27 July 2015 After the death of Nabire the entire population of the northern white rhinoceros dropped to four individuals.
- 21 July 2015 A small population of Schouteden's blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis schoutedeni) has been rediscovered on Idjwi island in the Democratic Republic of Congo after it was thought to be extinct since 2004.
- 1 July 2015 Zimbabwe's famous lion Cecil has been killed by an American big game hunter.
- 2 June 2015 Two thought to be extinct amphibians from Palawan, Philippines, have been rediscovered after several decades, the Malatgan River caecilian and the Palawan toadlet.
- 23 April 2015 The Borneo rhinoceros became extinct on Sabah.
- 19 March 2015 Six individuals of the delta smelt are known to occur by 2015.
- 17 March 2015 Not seen since 1946 the blue-bearded helmetcrest (Oxypogon cyanolaemus) has been rediscovered in 2015.
- 5 March 2015 Not seen since 1970 the Bouvier's red colobus has been rediscovered in the Republic of Congo by Belgian primatologist Lieven Devreese.
- 2 March 2015 Ornithologist Andy Mitchell and staff from the Cuban Museum of Natural History observed the critically endangered Zapata rail, the first evidence since 1970.
- 18 February 2015 Robert Mugabe allows the slaughtering of two elephants for his 91st birthday banquet.
- 10 February 2015 A 140-acre-reserve in the Sítio Fundão State Park in the Brazilian state of Ceará is established for the critically endangered Araripe manakin.
- 20 January 2015 One third of the gorilla and common chimpanzee population in Africa has been killed by Ebola since the 1990s.
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