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Can lost species ever become unextinct? Many scientists believe it's only a matter of time before many extinct animals again walk on the Earth, before that let's read a little about extinct animals.

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The Mascarene parrot or Mascarin (Mascarinus mascarin) is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Réunion in the western Indian Ocean. The taxonomic relationships of ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Animals

Until as recently as the early 1800s, the passenger pigeon was still considered the most numerous bird in all of North America. Individual flocks could contain in excess of a billion individual ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Animals

Pelorovis ("monstrous sheep") is an extinct genus of African wild cattle, which first appeared in the Pliocene, 2.5 million years ago, and became extinct at the end of the Late Pleistocene about ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Animals

The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra that lived in South Africa until the nineteenth century. It was long thought to be a distinct species, but genetic ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Animals

Sivatherium ('Shiva's beast)' is an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to the Indian Subcontinent. The African species, S. maurusium, was once placed within the genus ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Animals

The warrah, or Falkland Islands wolf, was a unique species of wolf that was once the only mammal species native to the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It’s thought that the species ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Animals

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