The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on 28 December 2017 the Beaverpond Marstonia (Marstonia castor), a freshwater snail from Georgia, is extinct. The announcement is in response to a 2010 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity […]
The Caribbean Monk Seal was found in warm temperate, subtropical and tropical waters of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the west Atlantic Ocean. It had been recorded from numerous islands, reefs and cays, […]
The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was one of the first, if not the first, species to be recognized as having been driven to extinction by man. The dodo was a large flightless pigeon from the island of Mauritius. It was last reported in 1662 but may have persisted until the 1690s. […]
The last known Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog (Ecnomiohyla rabborum), a male known as “Toughie” estimated to be about 12 years old, has died at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. In 2005, during a rescue mission a […]
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