Discover strange facts about recently extinct species: dodos, thylacines, passenger pigeons, Steller's sea cows, great auks, and the animals lost to humans...
Expert-written guide to recently extinct species including the thylacine, passenger pigeon, baiji dolphin, western black rhino, and golden toad. Covers extinction causes, de-extinction science, and species on the brink today.
The thylacine or Tasmanian tiger went extinct in 1936. Expert guide to what it was, why it was killed off, and whether genetic de-extinction could bring it back.
Everything about the dodo: size, habitat, diet, behaviour, extinction timeline, fossil record, and the strange facts that made Raphus cucullatus the most famous extinct bird in history.
Everything about the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger: size, stripes, habitat, hunting, jaw gape, the 1936 extinction of Benjamin, de-extinction projects, and the strange facts that made Thylacinus cynocephalus the largest marsupial predator of modern times.
Everything about the passenger pigeon: size, habitat, diet, nesting colonies, extinction timeline, and the strange facts that made Ectopistes migratorius go from the most abundant bird in North America to extinct in fifty years.
Everything about the great auk: size, habitat, diet, behaviour, extinction timeline, surviving specimens, and the strange facts that made Pinguinus impennis the original penguin and the clearest marker of human-caused extinction.
