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Map of North America. This is a list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] Recently extinct animals in the West Indies and Hawaii are in their own respective lists.
An extraterrestrial impact, which has occasionally been proposed as a cause of the Younger Dryas, [223] has been suggested by some authors as a potential cause of the extinction of North America's megafauna due to the temporal proximity between a proposed date for such an impact and the following megafaunal extinctions.
Extinct animals of the United States (1 C, 136 P) Pages in category "Extinct animals of North America" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Eastern North America 1880 [300] Hunting. It's been argued (based on genetic data) that most or all elk subspecies in North America are actually the same, which would be C. c. canadensis due to being named first. [301] [302] 1868 [303] Kawaihae hibiscadelphus: Hibiscadelphus bombycinus: Kawaihae, Hawaii, United States [304] 1998 (IUCN ...
The eastern elk (Cervus canadensis canadensis) is an extinct subspecies or distinct population of elk that inhabited the northern and eastern United States, and southern Canada. The last eastern elk was shot in Pennsylvania on September 1, 1877. [1] [2] The subspecies was declared extinct by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1880. [3]
Prehistoric mammals of North America (4 C, 142 P) Pages in category "Extinct mammals of North America" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
(Reuters) -A leading conservation research group found that 40% of animals and 34% of plants in the United States are at risk of extinction, while 41% of ecosystems are facing collapse.
Its fossils have been found across North America, from Canada to Mexico. [6] [7] It was about 25% larger than the modern lion, making it one of the largest known felids to ever exist, and an important apex predator. [8] The American lion became extinct as part of the end-Pleistocene extinction event along with most other large animals across ...