Animals Believed to be Extinct

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  • These species having no living representatives. As defined by the IUCN, extinct taxa are species or other taxa that are no longer known to exist in the wild after repeated search of their type locality and other locations where they were known or likely to have occurred. A taxon is extinct when there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.


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Last Revised: September 22, 2008