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Extinct Animals and Plants - TSV

Extinct animals and plants are species that once existed on Earth but have disappeared from the wild due to factors such as human activities, climate change, and habitat destruction. According to the IUCN Red List, they are defined as 'Extinct (EX),' and hundreds of species have been classified into this category over the past several centuries. Notable extinct animals include the dodo, thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), and Japanese wolf. Their extinction was primarily caused by environmental destruction, overhunting, and the introduction of invasive species by humans. Learning about extinct species provides important lessons for protecting current biodiversity.

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code	slug	name	description	causes	extinctionYear	habitat	scientificName	type
001	dodo	Dodo	An iconic extinct flightless bird.	["human_hunting","invasive_species","habitat_destruction"]	1681	Mauritius Island (Indian Ocean)	Raphus cucullatus	animal
002	thylacine	Thylacine	An extinct marsupial with a wolf-like or tiger-like appearance.	["human_hunting","habitat_destruction","disease"]	1936	Tasmania Island (Australia)	Thylacinus cynocephalus	animal
003	japanese-wolf	Japanese Wolf	A endemic wolf species that was widely distributed across the Japanese archipelago.	["disease","human_hunting","habitat_destruction"]	1905	Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu (Japan)	Canis lupus hodophilax	animal
004	passenger-pigeon	Passenger Pigeon	A North American pigeon once said to have flown in billions.	["human_hunting","habitat_destruction"]	1914	North American continent	Ectopistes migratorius	animal
005	stellers-sea-cow	Steller's Sea Cow	A large marine mammal that became extinct just 27 years after being discovered by humans.	["human_hunting"]	1768	Bering Sea and Kamchatka Peninsula region	Hydrodamalis gigas	animal
006	great-auk	Great Auk	A seabird extinct due to excessive hunting for feathers and food.	["human_hunting"]	1844	North Atlantic Ocean	Pinguinus impennis	animal
007	quagga	Quagga	A type of zebra with stripes only on the front half of its body.	["human_hunting"]	1883	South Africa	Equus quagga quagga	animal
008	japanese-river-otter	Japanese River Otter	An endemic Japanese otter hunted to extinction for its beautiful fur.	["human_hunting","habitat_destruction","pollution"]	2012	Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu (Japan)	Lutra lutra whiteleyi	animal
009	caribbean-monk-seal	Caribbean Monk Seal	The seal species discovered earliest by humans, extinct due to tourism development.	["human_hunting","habitat_destruction"]	1952	Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico	Neomonachus tropicalis	animal
010	woolly-mammoth	Woolly Mammoth	A large herbivore representing the Ice Age, extinct due to climate change and human hunting.	["climate_change","human_hunting"]	-2000	Eurasian continent and North America	Mammuthus primigenius	animal
011	silphium	Silphium	An extinct plant valued in ancient Rome for medicine, food, and currency.	["human_hunting","habitat_destruction"]	-100	Cyrenaica (modern-day Libya)	Ferula sp.	plant
012	cyanea-eleeleensis	Achyranthes atollensis	An extinct endemic plant of Hawaii.	["habitat_destruction","invasive_species"]	1964	Hawaiian Islands	Achyranthes atollensis	plant
013	koshigaya-hoshikusa	Koshigaya Starwort	A wild extinct plant that inhabited only the sand marsh in Ibaraki Prefecture.	["habitat_destruction"]	1994	Ibaraki Prefecture (Japan)	Stellaria koshigayensis	plant
014	shibi-itachishida	Shibi Cliff Fern	A wild extinct fern that grew only at the foot of Mount Shibi in Kagoshima Prefecture.	["habitat_destruction"]	1990	Kagoshima Prefecture (Japan)	Woodsia shibiensis	plant
015	gasha-moku	Gasha Tree	A threatened plant whose habitat was destroyed by land reclamation of lakes and marshes.	["habitat_destruction"]	1980	Chiba Prefecture and Northern Kyushu (Japan)	Aphananthe aspera var. arguta	plant