Big Animals Going Extinct. So we’re vulnerable, but there are reasons to think humans are resistant to extinction, maybe uniquely so. Several mammoths and other big mammals died off during the pleistocene/holocene extinction event, which started around 50,000 years ago and continued through the end of the last major ice age.

But, by default, we became the standard international list for extinctions. below, find 11 animals that have all gone extinct in the past two centuries thanks to humans. There are 1,983 vertebrate species considered critically endangered on the international union for conservation of nature's famous red list, and 235 species that are down to 50 or fewer individuals left. But humans, at the top of the chain, now dominate every aspect of the natural world and are changing the equation governing ecosystems by wholesale destroying ecosystems and severely compromising others.

Anna funk whittled that list down to 32 that may be still around, but are losing ground fast.

Learn more about the species we are working to protecting from becoming endangered or extinct. In a lecture he gave to the national geographic society upon his return from africa, tr reported: Nevertheless, dozens of mouse subspecies are going extinct around the world. Isaac on october 10, 2018: