Index / Ghosts
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Ghosts
Recently extinct or possibly-extinct species that haunt the edges of the record — the ones we may have just missed.
№ 001
Baker; E.J. Keller. · Public domain 
Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Public domain 
Arthur A. Allen · Public domain 
BazzaDaRambler · CC BY 2.0 
Mike Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0 
J. G. Hubbard, Internet Archive Book Images · Public domain 
Daderot · CC0 
Frederick York (d. 1903) · Public domain 
Linnaeus, 1758 · CC BY-SA 3.0 
Joseph Wolf · Public domain 
Bufo_periglenes1.jpg: Charles H. Smith vergrößert von Aglarech derivative work Purpy Pupple (talk) · Public domain 
New York Zoological Society. · Public domain 
Senckenberg Museum · Public domain 
Mike Weston · CC BY 2.0 
Ian Bell, EHP, State of Queensland · CC BY 3.0 au 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Photographer Paul E. Baker) · Public domain 
J. G. Keulemans · Public domain 
Marcus Sümnick from Rostock, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Kane Fleury, MothmanNZ · CC BY 4.0 
Lothar Schlawe · Public domain
Thylacine
Thylacinus cynocephalus
EX · Extinct
№ 002Baiji
Lipotes vexillifer
CR · Critically Endangered
№ 003Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Campephilus principalis
CR · Critically Endangered
№ 004Dodo
Raphus cucullatus
EX · Extinct
№ 005Great Auk
Pinguinus impennis
EX · Extinct
№ 006Passenger Pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius
EX · Extinct
№ 007Steller's Sea Cow
Hydrodamalis gigas
EX · Extinct
№ 008Quagga
Equus quagga quagga
EX · Extinct
№ 009Carolina Parakeet
Conuropsis carolinensis
EX · Extinct
№ 010Pyrenean Ibex
Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica
EX · Extinct
№ 011Golden Toad
Incilius periglenes
EX · Extinct
№ 012Caribbean Monk Seal
Neomonachus tropicalis
EX · Extinct
№ 013Western Black Rhino
Diceros bicornis longipes
EX · Extinct
№ 014Pinta Island Tortoise
Chelonoidis abingdonii
EX · Extinct
№ 015Bramble Cay Melomys
Melomys rubicola
EX · Extinct
№ 016Poʻouli
Melamprosops phaeosoma
EX · Extinct
№ 017Huia
Heteralocha acutirostris
EX · Extinct
№ 018Aurochs
Bos primigenius
EX · Extinct
№ 019Falkland Islands Wolf
Dusicyon australis
EX · Extinct
№ 020Schomburgk's Deer
Rucervus schomburgki
EX · Extinct