Extinct Marine Animals List
100 Recently Extinct Animals.
Extinct marine animals list. This whale is used for its fat and tissue with which soap or candles are made. The West Virginian woodland bison Arizonas Merriams Elk the Rocky Mountain grasshopper Passenger pigeon and Puerto Ricos Culebra parrot are all animals of the past now. Elasmosaurus a 14 meters 45 feet reptile that swallowed stones whole or the Mosasaurus which looked like a 15 meter 50 feet crocodile.
- predators include the Shastasaurus a reptile 21 meters 68 feet long. Manysuch as the Steller sea lion grizzly bear and bald eagleare on the road to recovery because of the protections provided by this law. These have been some fun facts about marine prehistoric animals.
The Galapagos Damsel fish may also be extinct but that has not yet been officially confirmed. The main reason for this once again is due to furtive and uncontrolled fishing. Megalodon swam the warm oceans as well as survived the ice age.
Listed in 2006 they were the only coral species under protection until 2014 when 20 other coral species were listed as threatened for a total of 22 species. Specific targeting of one species can be problematic to the ecosystem because the sudden demise of one species can inadvertently lead to the demise of another coextinction especially if the targeted species is a keystone species. New study rubbishes claim that giant shark still roams the ocean - and says it died out 26 million years ago Daily Mail.
This means they were around even before the dinosaurs. There are not just one or two marine animals in danger of extinction. At least 468 species of animals have gone extinct over the last century due to human activities.
9 2015 Rincon Paul. The only marine fish to have gone extinct thus far is the New Zealand grayling. Terrestrial mammals such as the tiger and deer are mainly hunted for their pelts and in some cases meat and marine mammals can be hunted for their oil and leather.