Balstrome
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Everybody hears/knows that species are dying off at an alarming rate, for whatever cause. My question is which species are they? I mean the ones that have gone extinction in the last say five to ten years, can anyone provide a list of these 100's of species that are no longer on this earth.
And what would also be interesting, is to see how many "new" species have evolved to take the place of the missing species. By extinction I mean of course the species no longer exists and has not just adapted or mutated into another species. Think carrier pigeon and the Dodo, that type of extinction.
Did a wiki whack of extinct mammals from the 1930's to date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_mammals
Marsupials
Toolache Wallaby (1943, Australia)
Desert Bandicoot (1943, Australia)
Lesser Bilby (1950s, Australia)
Pig-footed Bandicoot (1950s, Australia)
Crescent Nailtail Wallaby (1956, Australia)
Red-bellied Gracile Opossum (1962, Argentina)
Rodents
Ilin Island Cloudrunner (1953) Ilin Island) [18]
Little Swan Island hutia (1955, Swan Islands)
Blue-Gray Mouse (1956) Australia) [19]
Pallid Beach Mouse (1959, Florida)
Emperor Rat (1960s, Solomon Islands)
Soricimorphs
Christmas Island Shrew (1985, Christmas Island) (officially critically endangered, but has not been reliably seen since 1985) [22]
Bats
Guam Flying Fox (1968, Guam)
New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat (1988, New Zealand)
Lord Howe Long-eared Bat (1996, Australia) [27]
Sturdee's Pipistrelle (2000, Japan) [28]
Cetaceans
Chinese River Dolphin
Baiji (2006, China) (officially listed as functionally extinct; it is possible that a few aging individuals still survive)
Artiodactyls
Queen of Sheba's Gazelle (1951, Yemen) [31]
Pyrenean Ibex (2000, Pyrenees)
Carnivores
Japanese Sea Lion (1950s, Japan)
Caribbean Monk Seal (1952, Jamaica)
Subspecies
Bali Tiger (1940s, Bali) [32]
Japanese Wolf (1930s, Japan)
Mexican grizzly bear (1960s, Mexico)
Caspian Tiger (1970s, Tajikistan) [33]
Javan Tiger (1976, Java) [34]
Not really 100's per year as it claimed is it?
And what would also be interesting, is to see how many "new" species have evolved to take the place of the missing species. By extinction I mean of course the species no longer exists and has not just adapted or mutated into another species. Think carrier pigeon and the Dodo, that type of extinction.
Did a wiki whack of extinct mammals from the 1930's to date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_mammals
Marsupials
Toolache Wallaby (1943, Australia)
Desert Bandicoot (1943, Australia)
Lesser Bilby (1950s, Australia)
Pig-footed Bandicoot (1950s, Australia)
Crescent Nailtail Wallaby (1956, Australia)
Red-bellied Gracile Opossum (1962, Argentina)
Rodents
Ilin Island Cloudrunner (1953) Ilin Island) [18]
Little Swan Island hutia (1955, Swan Islands)
Blue-Gray Mouse (1956) Australia) [19]
Pallid Beach Mouse (1959, Florida)
Emperor Rat (1960s, Solomon Islands)
Soricimorphs
Christmas Island Shrew (1985, Christmas Island) (officially critically endangered, but has not been reliably seen since 1985) [22]
Bats
Guam Flying Fox (1968, Guam)
New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat (1988, New Zealand)
Lord Howe Long-eared Bat (1996, Australia) [27]
Sturdee's Pipistrelle (2000, Japan) [28]
Cetaceans
Chinese River Dolphin
Baiji (2006, China) (officially listed as functionally extinct; it is possible that a few aging individuals still survive)
Artiodactyls
Queen of Sheba's Gazelle (1951, Yemen) [31]
Pyrenean Ibex (2000, Pyrenees)
Carnivores
Japanese Sea Lion (1950s, Japan)
Caribbean Monk Seal (1952, Jamaica)
Subspecies
Bali Tiger (1940s, Bali) [32]
Japanese Wolf (1930s, Japan)
Mexican grizzly bear (1960s, Mexico)
Caspian Tiger (1970s, Tajikistan) [33]
Javan Tiger (1976, Java) [34]
Not really 100's per year as it claimed is it?