Of all the species that have gone extinct, humans possess film footage of a precious few



    by freudian_nipps

    15 Comments

    1. It’s crazy to think of the scale of the animal kingdom when something like 5 billion species are extinct

      Edit: probably much more than that

    2. Alarming-Note-1950 on

      How long will it take for humanity to destroy itself? So far, animals have been successful…

    3. 99% of all life that has ever existed is dead, and 99% of the proof any of those organisms existed is completely gone. We have no proof of the vast majority of species that ever existed on this planet. Ironically, we are also not responsible for the vast majority of species that have gone extinct, most of that happened before human beings ever even evolved.

    4. Fun fact Australia had 90% of its animal inhabitants and flora and fauna destroyed prior to the first arrival of colonialism

    5. TurbulentChemistry10 on

      The Thylacine is such a wonderful creature, I feel sad whenever I see this footage knowing I will never be able to see one in real life

    6. UseComfortable1193 on

      Fuck me, i just wondered what else has gone since we are around…pretty clearly we are the issue.

      Arabian ostrich
      Ascension crake
      Atlas wild ass
      Aurochs
      Atlas bear
      Big-eared hopping mouse
      Bluebuck
      Bramble Cay melomys
      Broad-billed parrot
      Bubal hartebeest
      Bulldog rat
      Bush moa
      Bushwren
      California grizzly bear
      Canary Islands oystercatcher
      Cape lion
      Caribbean monk seal
      Carolina parakeet
      Carpathian wisent
      Castilleja guadalupensis
      Caucasian wisent
      Cebu warty pig
      Chadwick Beach cotton mouse
      Chatham Islands bellbird
      Chatham Islands fernbird
      Chatham Islands rail
      Chinese paddlefish
      Colombian grebe
      Colpocephalum californici
      Cuban macaw
      Tecopa pupfish
      Delalande’s coua
      Dodo
      Domed Mauritius giant tortoise
      Domed Rodrigues giant tortoise
      Dusky seaside sparrow
      Eastern elk
      Eiao monarch
      Elephant bird
      Epioblasma haysiana
      Erica pyramidalis
      Eudyptes warhami
      Falkland Islands wolf
      Felicola isidoroi
      Formosan clouded leopard
      Fuegian dog
      Genyornis
      Goff’s pocket gopher
      Gravenche
      Great auk
      Guadalupe caracara
      Guam flying fox
      Gull Island vole
      Haast’s eagle
      Hanyusuchus
      Heath hen
      Hemigrapsus estellinensis
      Hesperelaea
      Hokkaido wolf
      Huia
      Japanese otter
      Japanese sea lion
      Japanese wolf
      Kangaroo Island emu
      Kenai Peninsula wolf
      King Island emu
      Laughing owl
      Lesser moa
      Lyall’s wren
      Macquarie parakeet
      Madeiran scops owl
      Malagasy crowned eagle
      Malagodon madagascariensis
      Mangareva reed warbler
      Mangarevan whistler
      Martinique amazon
      Mauritius blue pigeon
      Mauritius scops owl
      Megaladapis
      Merriam’s elk
      Mexican grizzly bear
      Moa
      Mount Glorious day frog
      Nesoryzomys darwini
      Nesoryzomys indefessus
      New Zealand greater short-tailed bat
      New Zealand musk duck
      New Zealand owlet-nightjar
      New Zealand quail
      Newton’s parakeet
      Norfolk kākā
      Noronhomys
      North Island giant moa
      North Island snipe
      Oʻahu nukupuʻu
      Oʻahu ʻōʻō
      Oʻahu ʻakialoa
      Oryzomys antillarum
      Paschalococos
      Passenger pigeon
      Piopio (bird)
      Pogogyne tenuiflora
      Quagga
      Ratas Island lizard
      Réunion giant tortoise
      Robust crow
      Rocky Mountain locust
      Round Island burrowing boa
      St. Croix macaw
      San Marcos gambusia
      San Martín Island woodrat
      São Miguel scops owl
      Schomburgk’s deer
      Scottish polecat
      Sea mink
      Sicilian wolf
      Small Mauritian flying fox
      South Island snipe
      Southern black rhinoceros
      Southern Rocky Mountain wolf
      Holocene extinction
      Steller’s sea cow
      Steppe bison
      Syncaris pasadenae
      Syrian elephant
      Tarpan
      Tasmanian emu
      Texas gray wolf
      Thicktail chub
      Thismia americana
      Thylacine
      Javan tiger
      Toolache wallaby
      Tristramella intermedia
      Upland moa
      Wake Island rail
      Western black rhinoceros
      Western Lewin’s rail
      Xerces blue
      Zanzibar leopard

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