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Extinct Animals

Futago Park

This park was once home to now-extinct Naumann's elephants, and what might have been a real Banksy.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Extinct Bird Hall

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

The Crooked House pub in Staffordshire, photographed in April 2023. A brick-built public house. The building was severely affected by subsidence.

Wonder Is Everywhere: Return of the Crooked House, World's Oldest Bread, and More From Around the Web

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April White March 15, 2024

Pigeon Hills Monument

Manheim Township, Pennsylvania

Pigeon Hills Monument

Dedicated to extinct passenger pigeons.

A popular tourist destination since becoming a filming location for Game of Thrones, The Dark Hedges is a road enveloped by beech trees in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Wonder Is Everywhere: Avian Love, Medieval Myths, and More From Around the Web

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April White December 8, 2023

Wonder Is Everywhere: A Message in an Egg Carton, Millions of Confused Bees, and More From Around the Web

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April White September 15, 2023

Sydney, Australia

Thylacine Taxidermy

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

This seems like a perfectly reasonable way to decorate a home in a fancy neighborhood. Maybe?

Wonder Is Everywhere: A Fight Over Optimus Prime, the Richmond Rat Boy, and More From Around the Web

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April White June 9, 2023

Puerto Ayora, Ecuador

Lonesome George at the Fausto Llerena Breeding Center

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

Science just saved this cute little fish from extinction.

extinct animals

Inside the Years-Long, International Effort to Save One Tiny Mexican Fish

Scientists and schoolchildren worked together to bring the tequila fish back from extinction.

Sarah Durn January 13, 2022

Podcast: Grasshopper Glacier

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team April 8, 2021

The great auk statue

Great Auk Sculpture at Valahnúkamöl

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

In Brisbane, platypuses are getting harder to find.

The Quiet Disappearance of Australia's Urban Platypuses

Newspapers used to describe sightings of dozens at a time. These days, one researcher says, "most Australians have never seen one."

Graham Readfern February 15, 2021

Oh, nose! Cave bears' diet-limiting sinuses may have been what spelled doom for the Ice Age beasts.

Why Europe's Cave Bears Were—and Weren't—Made for Hunkering Down

Their big sinuses were both an evolutionary boon and bust.

Isaac Schultz April 3, 2020

Meet the reticulated flatwoods salamander (<em>Ambystoma bishopi</em>).

Can a Salamander Find Salvation in San Antonio?

A zoo lab's successful captive-breeding program may be the best hope for this critically endangered amphibian.

Jennifer S. Holland March 16, 2020

The island's routine lava flows give researchers a number of ecological timestamps.

How Reading Lava Flows Reveals a Lost Paradise

Human harm is burned into Réunion’s ecological record.

Isaac Schultz February 25, 2020

Love fades.

How a Minnesota Town Fell In and Out of Love With Its Ginormous Geese

Like most human-fowl relationships, it's complicated.

Molly Monk February 13, 2020

The Tasmanian devil, a talisman of Australian wildlife, was catalogued and illustrated by John and Elizabeth Gould in the mid-19th century, then rendered as a lithograph by H.C. Richter.

See Australian Fauna in These Audubon-esque Illustrations

The 19th-century lithographs document a unique biodiversity that’s slipping away.

Isaac Schultz February 6, 2020