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Re:Sudan, last male northern white rhino, dies in Kenya by wingspar on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:45AM (#16627664)
More recently, the North American passenger pigeon. Billions to extinct in 19th century... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
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Re:Sudan, last male northern white rhino, dies in Kenya by onychomys on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:57AM (#16629094)
Twentieth century, as Martha (probably the last member of the species, although the standard post-extinction cryptic sightings continued into the 1930s) died in 1914.

If anybody wants to read an extremely complete book on the subject, it's hard to do better than A Feathered River Across The Sky[0]. It's well written and the science is sound.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Feathered-River-Across-Sky-Extinction...

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Re:Sudan, last male northern white rhino, dies in Kenya by jwilk on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:15AM (#16628719)
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

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Re:Sudan, last male northern white rhino, dies in Kenya by reitanqild on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:18PM (#16629930)
I was about to mention the Great Auk [0] but realized while reading up on it that scientists have started asking questions about the previously official sad story that I heard as a child.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk

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