Collection of Extinct Animal Footage Shows Incredible Creatures We’ve Lost

What do you say to an extinct species? “We’re sorry?”

It’s a tragic loss, and one that leaves no ancestors, and no recourse, aside from sci-fi attempts to bring dead species back to life.

This is a painful post to share, but it feels important enough to document and archive some of the beautiful species we’ve lost in the last 200 years.

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Last footage of the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger)

The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, was a large carnivorous marsupial that was hunted to extinction in the 1930s in Australia.

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 Only existing photograph of the Quagga

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Last known video of the Golden Toad

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Last photographs of the Barbary Lion, extinct in the 1960s

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4. Footage of a Layson Rail, a flightless bird native to Hawaii, extinct in the 1940s pic.twitter.com/vM6dxKBCSE

— Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) August 18, 2024

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The only photograph of the Tarpan Horse, taken in 1884

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Last photo of the Carolina Conure, extinct in 1918

 

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Some additional footage of the last known sightings of key animals.

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This one is especially beautiful and poignant, the last known call of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird. Its song was recorded in 1987.