are there any megafauna left?
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But in the past 500 years or so, things have started to speed up, and it's got scientists worrying. Today, every single class of megafauna is most at risk from human hunting. ... In the past 250 years, we know that nine megafauna species have either gone extinct completely, or gone extinct in the wild.
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This species has an extremely large range and can be found in Australia and Tasmania. The total population is unknown but scientists believe there are at least 10,000 mature individuals. The population is stable and not severely fragmented.
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Honey bees will be fine. They are a globally distributed, domesticated animal. Apis mellifera will not go extinct, and the species is not remotely threatened with extinction. ... Incredible losses in native bee diversity are already happening.
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Three bird species, two frogs, a shark, a famous snail and one of the world's largest freshwater fish were among those declared extinct this year. We lost a lot of species in 2019. The year started with the extinction of a tiny Hawaiian snail and ended with the loss of one of the world's largest freshwater fishes.
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Living on sloping bare rock faces and feeding on grasses at high elevations, this little creature is very rare — there are less than 1,000 left. The species was only discovered in 1983, but its numbers have declined by almost 70% since then, reports CNN.
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As of July 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 33 extinct in the wild animal species. Approximately 0.05% of all evaluated animal species are listed as extinct in the wild.
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['Tasmanian Tiger. [00:40]', 'Florida Panther. [02:01]', 'Tiny Primates. [03:05]', 'Saber-Tooth Tiger. [04:07]', 'California Condor + [05:21]', 'Horseshoe Crab + [06:58]', 'Bringing Back Dinosaurs + [08:04]', 'New Guinea Singing Dog. [09:11]']
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['Sumatran Rhino. The last Sumatran rhino in Malaysia passed away in November, 2019, making the extremely rare species locally extinct. ... ', 'Chinese paddlefish. ... ', 'Yangtze giant softshell turtle. ... ', 'Indian Cheetah. ... ', 'Spix Macaw. ... ', 'Catarina Pupfish. ... ', 'Indochinese tiger.']
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['Passenger pigeon. ... ', 'Dodo. ... ', 'Western black rhinoceros. ... ', 'Pyrenean ibex. ... ', 'Quagga. ... ', 'Tasmanian tiger. ... ', "Steller's sea cow. ... ", 'Woolly mammoth.']
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We currently know there are about 1.2 million species to be recorded by science. What's left to be discovered however is very interesting. The number of species that scientists think are left to be discovered is around 8.7 million (give or take about a million).
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There are about 300 species of Australian animals that are endangered. This means that these animals may disappear from the face of the Earth forever. Humans are directly responsible for most recent extinctions.
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['1. California Condor. The New World vulture species, the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), became extinct from the wild in 1987.', "H.J. Franklin's Bumblebee. ... ", 'Giant Sea-bass. ... ', "Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle. ... ", 'Oahu Tree Snails. ... ', 'Pygmy Raccoon. ... ', "Rabb's Fringe Limb Tree Frog. ... ", 'Red Wolf. ... ']
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['Giant crocodiles. Via deviantart.com. ... ', 'Three-foot-long scorpions. Via generalkulture.blogspot.co.uk. ... ', 'Massive millipedes. Via geology.cz. ... ', 'Spiders with stings like scorpions. ... ', 'Megasharks. ... ', 'Weird gigantic hybrids of scorpions and millipedes that lived in water. ... ', 'Giant piranhas. ... ', 'The largest species of snake ever.']
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Specimens of the Great Auk are now preserved in museums around the world, including the Smithsonian. But even those are rare, with only about 80 taxidermied specimens in existence.
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Unearthing the Megalodon on Tybee Island. Extinct for over 2 million years, Megalodons cruised the vast ocean waters around coastal Georgia for millions of years. Thanks to everchanging ocean currents, huge fossils of this megatooth shark species can be found around Tybee Island.
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['Bharattherium.', 'Exaeretodon.', 'Gigantopithecus.', 'Hyperodapedon.', 'Indian aurochs (Bos primigenius namadicus)', 'Sivatherium.', 'Pink-headed duck.', 'Sunderban dwarf rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis)']
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The list of species declared extinct in the last decade. During the decade that just ended (2010-2019), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared the extinction of 160 species.