Extinct animals

EX · IUCN Red List data, updated August 9, 2026

90 of the 6036 mammal species mapped on Animal World Map are listed as Extinct on the IUCN Red List — 1% of the dataset. They are recorded across 4 continents, most of them in North America.

No reasonable doubt remains that the last individual has died. A species is only declared Extinct after exhaustive surveys of its known range, at the times and in the seasons it would be expected to appear, have failed to record it.

Where Extinct sits on the scale

Extinct species by continent

A species is counted on every continent where its Red List range description places it, so a wide-ranging animal appears more than once. The totals below therefore add up to more than 90.

How many are left

Population estimates are quoted as the assessments word them, hedges included. Most species in this category have no reliable count at all, and the ones that do are usually stated as a bound rather than a figure — which is why they are not turned into a ranking here.

Buhler's Coryphomys Coryphomys buehleri
0 (extinct).
Desert Rat-kangaroo Caloprymnus campestris
Extinct; no individuals have been recorded since 1935 and the species is presumed to have died out shortly thereafter
Hispaniolan Edible Rat Brotomys voratus
No living population exists.
Oriente Cave Rat Boromys offella
Extinct; no living population remains.
Schomburgk's Deer Rucervus schomburgki
Zero; the species is extinct. Unverified rumors of surviving individuals in remote Laos have never been substantiated.
Torre's Cave Rat Boromys torrei
Population is zero.
White-footed Rabbit-rat Conilurus albipes
Extinct — population is zero.