Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene

This timeline of extinctions is an historical account of species that have become extinct during the time that modern humans have occupied the Earth.

The following is a selective list made by sampling a very small proportion, mostly mammals, of some of the well-known extinct species in recent history. For a more elaborate list see Lists of extinct animals. The vast majority of extinctions, though, are thought to be undocumented. According to the species-area theory and based on upper-bound estimation, the present rate of extinction may be up to 140,000 species per year.[1] See Holocene extinction for more information.

The Holocene is considered to have started at the Holocene glacial retreat main event at 9700 BCE. Species had also become extinct due to human activity before that date.

10th millennium BCE

9th millennium BCE

8th millennium BCE

7th millennium BCE

6th millennium BCE

5th millennium BCE

4th millennium BCE

  • c. 3010 BCE – The sloth Parocnus browni survived in Cuba until about this time.[14]

3rd millennium BCE

Cape lion

2nd millennium BCE

1st millennium BCE

1st millennium CE

2nd century

3rd century

4th century

  • c. 300 – The North African Elephant lives until about this time.[19]

5th century

6th century

7th century

8th century

9th century

  • c. 836 – The coastal moa survived in New Zealand until about this time.[3]
  • c. 885 – Daubentonia robusta survived in Madagascar until about this time.[3]

10th century

2nd millennium CE

12th century

  • c. 1180 – The Maui Nui moa-nalo survived until around this time.[3] The moa-nalo were large ducks and the Hawaiian Islands' major herbivores.[22]
  • c. 1190 – The Hunter Island penguin survived until around this time.[3]

14th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

  • 1627 – The last known aurochs died in Poland. This large wild cattle formerly inhabited much of Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, central Asia, and India.[25]
  • c. 1645 - Finsch's duck survived in New Zealand until around this time.[3]
  • 1662 - The last definite sighting of a dodo was made in Mauritius.[15] The extinction was due to hunting, but also by the pigs, rats, dogs and cats brought to the island by settlers. The species has become an iconic symbol of animal extinction.[26]
    The moa was one of the largest birds that ever existed.
  • The elephant bird Aepyornis maximus was last recorded around the end of the 17th century.[24]

18th century

19th century

  • 1800 - The last known bluebuck was shot, making the species the first African antelope to be hunted to extinction by European settlers.[32]
  • 1825 – The mysterious starling died out.[33]
  • 1826 - The Mauritius blue pigeon becomes extinct due to excessive hunting.[34]
  • 1827 - The Tonga ground skink dies out from its only home in the Tongan Islands.[35]
Quagga

20th century

1900s

  • 1902 – The last known specimens of the Rocky Mountain locust are collected near Brandon, Manitoba.[45]
  • 1905 – The last known Honshū wolf of Japan dies in Nara Prefecture.[46]
  • 1907 – The huia, a native bird of New Zealand, is last seen. Habitat loss, hunting, and disease all played a role in its extinction.[47]
  • 1909 - The last known tarpan, a Polish wild horse, died in captivity.[48]

1910s

  • 1911 – The last Newfoundland wolf was shot.[44]
  • 1914 – The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Excessive hunting contributed to its extinction; it was formerly one of the world's most abundant birds.[49]
  • 1918 – The last Carolina parakeet died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. The bird, formerly inhabiting the southeastern United States, was driven to extinction by exploitation, deforestation, and competition with introduced bees.[50]

1920s

1930s

The great auk was hunted for its down until its extinction around 1844.
The thylacine was exterminated into extinction.

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

3rd millennium CE

21st century

2000s

  • 2000 - "Celia", the last Pyrenean ibex, was found dead in 2000. However, in 2003, a female was cloned back into existence, but died shortly after birth due to defects in the lungs.[84][85]
  • 2003 – The last individual from the Saint Helena olive, which was grown in cultivation, dies off. The last plant in the wild had died in 1994.[86]
  • 2006 - A technologically sophisticated survey of the Yangtze River failed to find specimens of the baiji dolphin, prompting scientists to declare it functionally extinct.[87]

2010s

See also

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