Extinct Animals We Miss Deeply

Dodo Bird

Once native to Mauritius, the dodo symbolizes extinction—flightless, curious, and gone too soon.

Tasmanian Tiger

Also known as the thylacine, this striped marsupial predator was last seen in the 1930s.

Passenger Pigeon

Once numbering in the billions, these birds vanished due to mass hunting and habitat loss.

Woolly Mammoth

These shaggy Ice Age giants were relatives of today’s elephants, wiped out by climate and humans.

Quagga

A half-zebra, half-horse species native to South Africa, lost forever to overhunting.

Great Auk

This flightless seabird from the North Atlantic was hunted to extinction in the 1800s.

Saber-Toothed Tiger

A prehistoric predator with massive fangs, it ruled the Ice Age before dying out.

Carolina Parakeet

The only parrot species native to the U.S.—once colorful flocks, now just memories.