Extinct Animals In The World 2018
Due to excessive commercial hunting one of the planets most common birds was declared extinct.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. 2018 was the year the eastern cougar was officially declared extinct likely 80 years after the last one was killed in Maine. Northern white rhinos inhabited parts of Central African Republic Chad the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sudan and Uganda and are a subspecies of white rhinoceros. Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years.
Kihansi spray toad listed extinct in the wild since 2009 Northern white rhinoceros possibly extinct in the wild. Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images. The Sumatran elephant is on the verge of extinction and is considered one of the most endangered species in the entire animal kingdom.
Some of the most famous extinct animals of recent times have been birds--but for every Passenger Pigeon or Dodo theres a much bigger and much lesser-known casualties like the Elephant Bird or the Eastern Moa and many other species remain endangered to this day. Three bird species went extinct last year scientists said two of which are songbirds from northeastern Brazil. Ever wondered about the 10 oldest civilizations of the world.
The West Virginian woodland bison Arizonas Merriams Elk the Rocky Mountain grasshopper Passenger pigeon and Puerto Ricos Culebra parrot are all animals of the past now. Sudan the last male northern white rhino left in the world died. In 2018 three bird species that were thought to have potentially gone extinct were deemed officially gone forever.
The organization BirdLife International determined that the Hawaiian poʻouli and two Brazilian songbirds the Cryptic Treehunter and the Alagoas Foliage-gleaner are all extinct as of this year. In 1914 just 48 years later Martha the worlds last passenger pigeon was laid to rest. The plains bison Bison bison once numbered about 60 million heads.
The Cryptic Treehunter Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti and Alagoas Foliage-gleaner. Species extinction is a serious problem today and while the world is trying to prevent this from occurring we cant prevent it at the speed its happening. An additional species of bird that reached the verge of extinction in 2018 is the Spixs macaw which was declared extinct in the wild and now only a few captive Spixs macaws are alive.