570 vanished lives

24Recently extinct

Australia’s striped marsupial predator survived longest in Tasmania.

27Recently extinct

This enormous, slow sirenian grazed kelp in cold shallow water.

72Recently extinct

This plains zebra had bold stripes in front fading into a plain brown rear body.

73Recently extinct

The powerful wild ancestor of domestic cattle once ranged across three continents.

74Recently extinct

The only seal endemic to the Caribbean rested and bred on warm sandy shores.

75Recently extinct

This unusually tame island canid was the Falklands’ only native land mammal.

79Recently extinct

The bucardo was the first extinct animal briefly brought back as a clone—and the first to go extinct twice.

100Recently extinct

This large coastal sea lion bred on rocky islands across the Sea of Japan.

120Recently extinct

This palm-sized insect bat fell from island-wide abundance to a final acoustic signal in 2009.

345Recently extinct

Island scarcity shrank a giant-elephant lineage to about one meter at the shoulder.

346Recently extinct

It was hunted out for fur before scientists could describe a living animal.

347Recently extinct

Its blue cast likely came from gray hair over dark skin rather than bright fur.

348Recently extinct

Broad multi-tined antlers formed a crown above floodplain grasslands.