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Australia-New Guinea is divided between three countries: Australia (mainland Australia and Tasmania), Papua New Guinea (eastern New Guinea), and Indonesia (Western New Guinea and the Aru Islands). Extinct animals from the rest of Indonesia are covered in List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene.
Indigenous Australian rock paintings indicate that the thylacine lived throughout mainland Australia and New Guinea. Proof of the animal's existence in mainland Australia came from a desiccated carcass that was discovered in a cave in the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia in 1990; carbon dating revealed it to be around 3,300 years old. [55]
An extinct Portuguese dog breed. Tesem: Ancient Egyptian dogs that are now extinct. [37] Toy Bulldog: A British breed that was a miniature version of the Bulldog, popular in the late Victorian era as a companion dog; it is considered to be the progenitor of the French Bulldog (which surpassed it in popularity) and the last record of it was in ...
The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a dog-like marsupial with the head of a wolf. The shy Australian animals died after only a century of European settlement. Despite the world's last captive ...
Based on the list of Australian animals extinct in the Holocene, about 33 mammals (27 from the mainland, including the thylacine), 24 birds (three from the mainland), one reptile, and three frog species or subspecies are strongly believed to have become extinct in Australia during the Holocene epoch.
List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of European species extinct in the Holocene. List of extinct animals of the British Isles; List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Australia-New Guinea ...
You won't believe how incredible these extinct dog breeds once were. The post 8 Extinct Dog Breeds You Won’t Believe Actually Existed appeared first on Reader's Digest.
This category includes animals that have become extinct in Australia since European colonisation in 1788. For fossil species see Category:Prehistoric animals of Oceania.