Lists of extinct species

This page features lists of extinct species, organisms that have become extinct, either in the wild or completely disappeared from Earth. In practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last 50 years is called extinct.

• Lists of extinct animals
• List of extinct plants
• List of recently extinct amphibians
• List of recently extinct arthropods
• List of recently extinct bird species
• List of recently extinct fishes
• List of recently extinct insects
• List of recently extinct invertebrates
• List of recently extinct mammals
• List of recently extinct molluscs
• List of recently extinct reptiles

The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown.