Here is a list of a few animals that have gone recently extinct. By recently I obviously do not mean this year. I mean 10-60 years ago.
1. Golden Toad
This species lived in Costa Rica in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological reserve. The golden Toad was claimed to be officially extinct in August 2007
2. Carribean Monk Seal
The only seal native to the carribean and the gulf of mexico, the last account of the seal was in 1952 at a bank between Honduras and Jamaica. On June 6th, 2008, it was officially recognized as extinct.
3. Pyrenean Ibex
Native to the mountains of Andorra, France, and Spain the Ibex was the first species to be created again by cloning, but unfortunately it failed. The last naturally born Ibex passed away January 6th, 2000.
4. Javan Tiger
The Java tiger was from the Indonesian island of Java. Although three animals were said to be identified in 1979 and there was evidence of it surviving in the 1980s, the last of the species was seen in 1972
5. Baiji River Dolphin
Found in the Yangtze River of China, the Dolphin was recorded as extinct in 2006, after an expedition to look for it, no Baiji Dolphin was ever found during the expedition.
Thank you for raising awareness of what we're doing to life on this planet. Even before mankind subdued every part of the Earth, there was a natural "background rate" of extinction. But now the rate of extinction is something on the order of 1,000 times the background rate, and it's due to human activity.
Without any doubts I'm pretty sure it all had to have something to do with climate change. Hey no big worries right, just a few animal species. But the dominoes are falling, and you even mentioned that cloning one of the extinct animals had failed. Well that's definitely very bad news then.
Fuck 'em, cause eventually it's going to turn into something like "The Day After Tomorrow" or like in the ending of "A. I. Artificial Intelligence", and then those that that told them before don't need to tell them again that "we" told them so.
Some of the extinct species were removed because of mankind intentionally wanting their heads on a display wall (may those assholes die a horrible death), but a good majority are gone as a result of natural selection... only the strong shall survive.
Extinction has happened 1000's of times over millions of years, look at the dinosaurs mass extinction, natural non-human induced climate change, and the dynamic earth solar system killed them. It will happen again someday... and some morsel of cellular tissue will survive, and it will all start over again with new species.
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