Top 30 Extinct Animals
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If this list proves anything, it's that humans are truly the planet's apex predator. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the species that have disappeared throughout history. Our countdown of extinct animals includes the Barbary Lion, Steller’s Sea Cow, Dire Wolf, Caspian Tiger, Dodo, and more! If you could bring back one extinct animal, which species would you pick? Let us know below!
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If you could bring back one extinct animal, which species would you pick? Let us know below! For more content like this, click here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/f2xouMODcsa5hqg.html Don't forget to play our Live Trivia (www.watchmojo.com/play) games at 3pm EST for a chance to win cash! The faster you answer, the more points you get!
@ny6978
3 ай бұрын
Megalodon, I would own the coolest petting zoo ever
@mightymorphincosmicfuryrangers
3 ай бұрын
I would choose the Tasmanian Tiger. The reason they went extinct was stupid because they were only misunderstood and the only creature in the world that could open its jaw wider than any other animal disappeared in 1936.
@myingthungloodyuo8086
3 ай бұрын
Big tooth
@duncan3998
3 ай бұрын
Pteranodon
@tarden132
3 ай бұрын
the moa
The team bringing the wolly mammoth back is making great progress
@starscream02180
2 ай бұрын
Even if they exceed doing so. Animal Would be hybrid.but its dna would be too degraded. Too bring back. Since mammoth went extinct for more four thousand years. But then again am not a real scientist .
@SuperBabyMario0C
Ай бұрын
definitely not a real scientist lol
Just noticed one Thing in common in the cause of the extinction of this animals..."Humans"
🌍😢 So sad to see what we've lost due to human actions.
@eillim6515
3 ай бұрын
Humans and the A hole creatures/vegetation that have been migrated from overseas to here and caused chaos on the native land
@user-rs8ky8hv6s
Ай бұрын
It's horrible, isn't it?
@henrybitencourt
11 күн бұрын
Yeah humans are usually a top of the food chain so that can cause soo many extinctions to Animals
@ntuthukomavundla6672
4 күн бұрын
My thoughts exactly, we are such a destructive species.
@user-rs8ky8hv6s
4 күн бұрын
@@ntuthukomavundla6672 And while it's true that there are truly good people who devote their lives to conservation and respecting and protecting the natural world (bless their hearts,) the sad fact is there simply aren't enough of them. The vast majority of humanity either does not know, does not care, or both, until it's too late.
I like think they didn't include the Tasmanian Tiger because they don't think it's truly extinct.
@slystone4892
3 ай бұрын
Ask Bugs Bunny
@beyondview
3 ай бұрын
@@slystone4892he DED
@ericsaunders2485
3 ай бұрын
Thought it was a dog, or wolf type….
@solidraven6986
3 ай бұрын
Who the fuck is they?
@LucienSabre
3 ай бұрын
@@solidraven6986 (“They” is) WatchMojo, who else? It’s fu*king obvious.
Too bad Woolly Rhinos, Terror Birds, Indricotherium, Glyptodonts, Dimetrodon, Dunkleosteus, more Mesozoic sea reptiles, or any giant bugs from the Carboniferous period didn't make the list. Haha I love prehistoric stuff
I'm not even being funny but I thought Jim Henson had a whole special dedicated to the Golden Toads in awareness of their rapid decline. Song of the Forest, I think it was called.
@eillim6515
3 ай бұрын
jim henson is extinct
The Dodo It's the textbook extinct animal that's most often referenced
so in summary its all "european settlers" fault
@carolyncolebeck6945
2 ай бұрын
What did those animals do to be hunted to extinction
@bradleymcavoy3432
Ай бұрын
@kobikwahbz5763 European settlers to America?!? I hope you’re joking because the vast majority of these animals died out before European settlers to America! You could partially blame prehistoric man but in America Stone Age man were more closely related to Asiatic peoples! 🙄
@carolyncolebeck6945
Ай бұрын
@@bradleymcavoy3432 thanks a lot Europe
The male kuai oo is singing for one who don't exist😢
@knightofarkronia9968
3 ай бұрын
That is just depressing!
@user-rs8ky8hv6s
Ай бұрын
@@knightofarkronia9968Not just depressing. It's utterly heartbreaking.
If I had the ability to bring back any of these species, I'd choose the barbary lion, dire wolf, caspian tiger, Japanese wolf, quagga, cave lion, and sabertooth cat.
Dinosaurs aren't extinct. Just look at Congress. 😅
Translating to Dunkle’s Bone, Dunkleosteus’s thick shell would be a great defense mechanism against Megalodon, whose greater maneuverability would give it an opportunity to get the jump on Dunkleosteus’s vulnerable areas.
There was a Quagga at Nasu Safari Park in Japan when we visited around 2017/2018. I thought it was just a strange looking Zebra. I learned what it was watching this video. Thanks!
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! I wonder why they have all gone extinct. Some speculate they were asteroids, some said they were gas coming from the Earth's crust, etc.. The weird thing is how there are so few of the fossils remaining today.
Love how the background music keeps changing
The house hippo, haven't seen one in years
Maybe, just maybe, we should concentrate on saving animals that are currently endangered, rather than throwing money at pipe dream 'de-extinction' projects
@mr_madness4208
Ай бұрын
The pipe dream is expecting humanity to change. Unfortunately there's more glory bringing back the dead than protecting the living. Especially scientifically. Sad really, even more so as most the time we're the cause.
0:12 dinosaurs What they showed : pterosaur
Do a top 100 list of extinct animals next
Such a sad list.
@eillim6515
3 ай бұрын
that part-
@dreamguardian8320
3 ай бұрын
I know how you feel.
@user-rs8ky8hv6s
Ай бұрын
It's basically a list of humanity's sins.
I thought dodo would be #1, we have a saying, "Going/gone the way of the dodo!"
Good list love animals hope save and maintain some of these beautiful creatures
Some animals thought to be extinct have been in the news recently.
The Dodo is very iconic to be a fictional animated character such the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland, the Dodos from Ice Age, Rocko the Dodo from Wild Kratts and Polly from the Pirates band of Misfits
@mikeburkhart8336
3 ай бұрын
Not to mention Gogo Dodo in Tiny Toon Adventures.
The REAL question is NOT why did the trilobites go extonct, but, with everything humanity does to it's planet, it's environment, AND, itself, what make it think 5hat it WON'T!?
It is really terrifying that how large lot of animals were way back then.
@user-rs8ky8hv6s
Ай бұрын
And yet the most terrifying animal ever to evolve is still very much alive-ourselves.
Helpful info thx 👍. And the animals that I want to bring back are the Tasmanian tiger and ONLY the dinosaur herbivores.
Thank you...!!! Great❤
Now do top 30 instinct animal revival
The number one most invasive and detrimental species on the planet is actually just the house cat
Why am I not surprised the Honshu Wolf section had clips from Wolf Children in it?
Damn those are some crazy facts about the Titanoboa, so that means if it was still alive today, it would've been bigger than all our modern day snakes! 😮😅
The Moa's size reminds of Kevin from up
Tbh, this is just inevateble, 99% off all animals that ever existed are now extinxt.
@eillim6515
3 ай бұрын
Polar bears are next on the list I feel
@user-rs8ky8hv6s
Ай бұрын
You......missed the entire point of the video then, didn't you?
@guus5504
Ай бұрын
@@user-rs8ky8hv6s Dont think I did. But please explain.
@user-rs8ky8hv6s
Ай бұрын
@@guus5504 Most of the animals on that list went extinct........because of us humans, one way or another. And we caused them to go extinct much, MUCH faster than they would have naturally, which usually takes MILLIONS of years, not a couple hundred or even couple thousand years. So yes, you are right when you say the vast majority of animals that have existed on this earth are already extinct. But in the context of this video, that logic doesn't really apply, because those animals went extinct due to natural causes, and not because of human interference like all the recent extinctions have.
NGL I'm glad The Titanoboa is extinct, imagine someone had one of those as a pet, & they released it into your neighborhood? No Animals or People would be safe.
The Thylacine not being on this list is astonishing
You got something wrong. The Anaconda isn’t the largest snake in the world. It’s the heaviest, not longest. The longest snake in the world is the Reticulated Python. Largest ever found was 31 feet. Largest Anaconda ever found was 27. Get your facts right
There are some cryptozoologists who think that Bigfoot and the Yeti are a Gigantopithecus.
Will you please do a newly discovered species episode
Japanese Wolf is Quite Interesting 👌🏻, And I want to bring them back from Extinction.
Theres abit if a trend in this list....
These majestic animals are now Extinct; the main reason is us humans.
Eskimo Curlews should be included. Subject of a book and film called "The Last of the Curlews" and no evidence of any sightings since 1987. However, they haven't been officially declared extinct outright. At this point, they probably should.
Do a extinct birds list next
A moment of silence for all those animals.
I've heard of an elephant bird from Dr. Seuss' Horton Hatches the Egg, but it's nothing like this.
I’d like to think we’ve come a long way from our ancestors’s destructive ways, and in some ways we have. But in others, it’s just gotten worse.
This is a very depressing list...
@dreamguardian8320
3 ай бұрын
I know how you feel.
@user-rs8ky8hv6s
Ай бұрын
It should be. It's basically a list of humanity's sins.
Mastodons deserved an honorable mention
I was waiting for the Great Auk the Penguin of the north.. basically it's the true penguin since the penguins that we know today are named after the extinct bird.
This just shows humans are the actual predators
22:34 Megaloceros 🦌🦌🦌
So are my favorite creatures are numbers: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,11,12,13,14,16, 17,18,19,21,23,25,26,27 & 30!😊
Sean Seah, Chloe lying Lin and Brandon tan
Interesting
Wolly Mammoth was still puny compared to Palaeoloxodon namadicus
I feel that at least 1 member of the Phorusrhacids, or as they are better known, the Terror Birds should have been on this list; a group of birds that included species (e.g. Phorusrahchos, Kelenken, and Titanis) that grew 6-10 feet tall, could potentially run faster than a horse, had a beak that might have had the ability to crack bone with just one powerful peck, and sat at the top of South America's food chain for tens of millions of years, at one point even coexisting with, and possibly dominating, a species of Smilodon (which, despite popular belief, almost certainly did not drive them to extinction) for a decently lengthy period of time
The Auroch was a very Beefy animal! See what I did there. 🤣
No Cave Bears? C'mon!!!
@Morrison-saber-tooth
3 ай бұрын
They are undereated
I think I would bring back the bear wolf back
F early human that aurochs cow that thing would have the best fuckin steak ever and those homies didn’t cook like we do WASTE
Thylacine
I would like the Hawaiian bird to come back
The Irish Elk is gorgeous.
@dreamguardian8320
3 ай бұрын
Indeed.
I didn't realize that a good majority of animals were killed off because of humans.
No Thylacine?
I feel sorry for the ones extinction related to human, especially Kauaʻi ʻōʻō
The titanaboa isn't extinct either. Theres a photo taken from a plane over the then Belgium Congo and a superlarge black snake, estimated at 50 feet long, was photographed by a well known and respected photographer and the Pilot, also highly respected. The snakes neck was 10 feet long and it would aim for the plane whilst trying to bite it. Theres something primordial in the Congo and it isn't huge snakes which are seen but MASSIVE spiders as well. I DON'T want to go there!
Sabertooth Tiger?
I'd bring back mammoths the food they'd provide
If Titanoboa still alive today
How sabertooth could eat.? It's teeth obscured entrance in its mouth
That's why humans is the most dangerous species on earth how sad beautiful creatures are extinct because of us
Hello good morning
Sabertooth 🎉 Vs Logan
26:23🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
Those animals are probably still alive in the Antarctica
Lions
All I can say is that I wish the Dodo bird was given another chance
Sabertooths need to return to put Humanity back in it's place.
I would bring back Magalodon
Low on ideas, are we?
Wow. We suck.
I would bring back all of the species of extinct animals
Smile Odon, eatup someone these deer, running up insurance rates
I guarantee you gigantopithecus isn't extinct quiet yet I'm pretty sure that's Bigfoot
Birds are dinosaurs. 😂
They should bring back Japanese Wolf and other wolves who were gone in many centuries, Florida Black Wolf, Texas Wolf, We need Science and DNA Evidence to them back and other Extinct Animals as well, Also we also need Science and DNA Evidence to keep all animals of around the world alive for the next centuries, At last we need laws to make Hunting and Poaching a federal crime.
No thylacine? This list is a fail!
The Golden toad is still around and irritating people it's known now as Amber turd😅
I have seen ice age who else
Me at 10:30: “one more video then I’ll go to sleep” Meanwhile, me watching this at 2am:
All these animals lived in the balance with the natives until the Europeans arrived and then they went extinct!
Hiooooo
You missed the Hutia from Puerto Rico
0:12: She said they wouldn't show any dinosaurs, but we see some extinct birds. She realizes birds are dinosaurs, right?
Why make two videos THE EXACT SAME just like in a different order bc that’s annoying
First
@StanHalen1936
3 ай бұрын
Why do you children do this?
@Amilahaaaa04
3 ай бұрын
@@StanHalen1936I would say for attention, but it doesn’t make any sense even with that, ig they get some kind of kick from watching strangers mald over their unoriginal comments , like a future troll in training
@Reaperguy67
3 ай бұрын
@@Amilahaaaa04 Nobody is mad and he just asked a question about it
@Reaperguy67
3 ай бұрын
Your comment is pointless because it adds nothing to the discussion about the video.
@Jesusfreak79
3 ай бұрын
Congratulations
"climate change, Europeans, climate change, europeans"... Mojo bumping them ESG scores up by being scummy as usual
@eillim6515
3 ай бұрын
timestamp the european part. The narrator is a european so more self hating I guess lol. I wish self hating euros well but I'll be on the other side thanks