San Francisco, CA

A detail from a shirt done for a Burning Man 2009 attendee. They were in the "Extinct" section and they had a martini bar/tent in a larger complex.

8 août 2013 - 21h20

Vue prise de la Faute sur Mer, sur le château d'eau de la Tranche sur Mer.

Pere David's deer stag at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park.

Elaphurus davidianus Milne-Edwards, 1866

Cervidae

Cetartiodactyla

Some photos from a visit to London

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

Skull and limb bones of Mesopithecus pentelici, a Mio-Pliocene monkey, at Galerie de Paleontologie, Paris. Note that, whilst being extinct for 5 to 7 million years, it still knows how to give me the finger.

Mesopithecus pentelici Wagner, 1839

Cercopithecidae

Primates

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Melbourne Museum

11.05.2013 Juki 42, Ahrensburg

Somewhere on a dead end dirt road on the south shore of Nova Scotia.

Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.

London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.

biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/40362

extinct..

more passenger pigeons!

Skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis at Dinosaurland, Dorset.

Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis Xu et al. 2000

Hypsilophodontidae

Ornithischia

Some photos from a visit to London

Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton.

The bird's original habitat is in Bali, Indonesia. This bird is almost extinct...

captured in Taman Safari Indonesia

Navajo Falls (extinct after the flood of 2008), about eleven miles into the hike

May 14, 2003

Havasu Canyon, Arizona

pen and ink on mulberry paper

Visiting the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville.

Fossil of Compsognathus longipes at Oxford Museum of Natural History.

Compsognathus longipes Wagner, 1859

Compsognathidae

Saurischia

Superdomain: Neomura

Domain: Eukaryota

(unranked): Unikonta

(unranked): Obazoa

(unranked): Opisthokonta

(unranked) Holozoa

(unranked) Filozoa

Kingdom: Animalia

Subkingdom: Eumetazoa

Clade: ParaHoxozoa

Clade: Bilateria

Clade: Nephrozoa

Superphylum: Deuterostomia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Infraphylum: Gnathostomata

Superclass: Tetrapoda

(unranked) Amniota

Class: Mammalia

Clade: Theriimorpha

Clade: Theriiformes

Clade: Trechnotheria

Clade: Cladotheria

Clade: Zatheria

Clade: Tribosphenida

Clade: Eutheria

Infraclass: Placentalia

Clade: Exafroplacentalia

Magnorder: Boreoeutheria

Superorder: Laurasiatheria

(unranked): Scrotifera

Grandorder: Ferungulata

Clade: Ungulata

Order: Artiodactyla

Suborder: Tylopoda

Family: †Xiphodontidae

Genus: †Xiphodon

Species: †X. intermedium

scultpure of a now extinct pigeon

look at his cute wee horns!

Skull of steppe wisent, or bison, at Natural History Museum, London.

Bison priscus Bojanus, 1827

Bovidae

Cetartiodactyla

Mastodon skeleton @Children's Museum of Indianapolis 2-08-09

Gallirallus owstoni.

This small bird is extinct in the wild. Extirpated from its native island of Guam by the introduced predatory Brown Tree Snake, it now exists only in captivity in Guam and in 15 U.S. zoos. There are less than 200 on the planet.

Fresno Chaffee Zoo