Lists of extinct species

This page features lists of extinct species, organisms that have become extinct, either in the wild or completely. In practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last 50 years is called extinct.

• Lists of extinct animals

• List of extinct birds
• List of extinct mammals
• List of extinct cetaceans
• List of extinct arachnids
• List of extinct insects
  • List of extinct butterflies

• List of extinct plants

See also

• Extinction
• Extinction event
• Endangered species
• Extinct (disambiguation)

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