At the Amsterdam Zoo, a quagga that had last walked the planet passed away in 1883.
If someone told you that a poisonous species of parrot once lived in the Eastern United States,
An extinct species of wild goat known as the Pyrenean ibex once roamed through France, Andorra, and Spain.
Over the course of 21 months, the population of this species decreased gradually, as snail populations do. It went from 296 to one.
The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, was a strange marsupial the size of a dog.
Their sleek black plumage was used for glossy decorations of traditional headwear for the islanders.