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Dodo
A well-known and extinct flightless bird. And everyone knows the popular dodo character in Alice in Wonderland, below.
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Steller's sea cow
Steller's sea cow is an extinct sirenian described by Georg Wilhelm Steller in 1741. At that time, it was found only around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia.
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Pinta Giant Tortoise
The Pinta Island tortoise, also known as the Pinta giant tortoise, Abingdon Island tortoise, or Abingdon Island giant tortoise, was a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuador's Pinta Island that recently became extinct.
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Thylacine
The thylacine, also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, was a species of carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea.
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Wooly Mammoth
The woolly mammoth is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with the African Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene.
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Quagga
The quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra that was endemic to South Africa until it was hunted to extinction in the late 19th century. It was long thought to be a distinct species, but mtDNA studies have supported it being a subspecies of plains zebra.
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Great Auk
The great auk, also known as the penguin or garefowl, is an extinct species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and became extinct in the mid-19th century.
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Pyrenean Ibex
The Pyrenean Ibex was one of the four subspecies of the Iberian ibex or Iberian wild goat, a species native to the Iberian Peninsula and immediately adjacent southern France.
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Aurochs
The aurochs is an extinct species of bovine, considered to be the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. With a shoulder height of up to 1.8 m in bulls and 1.55 m in cows, it was one of the largest herbivores in the Holocene.
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Caspian Tiger
The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population native to eastern Turkey, northern Iran, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea.
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Irish Elk
The Irish elk, also called the giant deer or Irish deer, is an extinct species of deer in the genus Megaloceros and is one of the largest deer that ever lived.
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Moa
Moa are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand.
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