Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger by Joseph Wolf, 1853Drepanosaurus by Nix, 2014Male and female passenger pigeons by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, from the book The Passenger Pigeon by William Butts Mershon, 1907Steller’s sea cow by Richard EllisMoa (Dinornis) by Mark Witton, 2018Eohippus stamp issued in 1996, painted by Don BalkeSinosauropteryx prima by Andy FrazerArtist: S. F. Denton, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, ca. 1870Plagiosuchus pustuliferus, an amphibian, by Jakub ZalewskiKairuku waewaeroa, a giant penguin whose fossilized remains were found by New Zealand schoolkids in 2006, by Giova Favazzi, 2021
Sad how many of these were wiped out by humans. It is now the 6th great age of extinction, welcome to the Anthropocene.