Wikipedia:WikiProject Extinction/Recognized content

Featured articles
Total pages in content type is 50
 * Archaeoindris
 * Babakotia
 * Bluebuck
 * Broad-billed parrot
 * Chicxulub crater
 * Choiseul pigeon
 * Columbian mammoth
 * Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
 * Cryptoprocta spelea
 * Cuban macaw
 * Dire wolf
 * Dodo
 * Echo parakeet
 * Golden swallow
 * Great auk
 * Guadeloupe amazon
 * Hoopoe starling
 * Huia
 * King Island emu
 * Laysan honeycreeper
 * Lesser Antillean macaw
 * Mascarene grey parakeet
 * Mascarene parrot
 * Mauritius blue pigeon
 * Mauritius sheldgoose
 * Mesopropithecus
 * Newton's parakeet
 * Noronhomys
 * Passenger pigeon
 * Pennatomys
 * Quagga
 * Red rail
 * Réunion ibis
 * Réunion swamphen
 * Rodrigues night heron
 * Rodrigues parrot
 * Rodrigues solitaire
 * Rodrigues starling
 * St. Croix macaw
 * Sea mink
 * Seychelles parakeet
 * Smilodon
 * Spotted green pigeon
 * Steller's sea cow
 * Subfossil lemur
 * Tahiti rail
 * Thylacine
 * White swamphen
 * Woolly mammoth
 * Rodrigues rail

Former featured articles
Total pages in content type is 1
 * Homo floresiensis

Featured lists
Total pages in content type is 1
 * Timeline of the far future

Good articles
Total pages in content type is 17
 * Aurochs
 * Bramble Cay melomys
 * Diprotodon
 * Ecnomiohyla rabborum
 * Ecology
 * English Water Spaniel
 * Hadropithecus
 * Hemigrapsus estellinensis
 * Marquesan Dog
 * Martinique macaw
 * Microgale macpheei
 * Neanderthal
 * Norfolk Spaniel
 * Oryzomys nelsoni
 * Pachylemur
 * Raphinae
 * Tahitian Dog

Did you know? articles
Total pages in content type is 59
 * ... that Abutilon pitcairnense is extinct in the wild after the single wild plant died in a landslide in 2005? (2011-04-26)
 * ... that Archaeoindris (pictured), a recently extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla? (2012-08-27)
 * ... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs? (2010-03-05)
 * ... that the villain Scar of Disney's The Lion King, was based on a Barbary lion? (2004-11-05)
 * ... that Biodiversity Impact Credits seek to stop species extinction? (2024-04-29)
 * ... that the bluebuck (pictured) was the first large African mammal historically recorded to have become extinct? (2016-07-26)
 * ... that the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys was described as the first for a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change? (2019-07-20)
 * ... that the interrupted brome (pictured) was the first plant species classified as extinct in the wild to be reintroduced in British history? (2008-03-25)
 * ... that the New Zealand and the Chatham Coot were likely hunted to extinction by the Māori people? (2013-08-11)
 * ... that the extinct Choiseul Pigeon (pictured), which was endemic to the island of Choiseul in the Solomon Islands, was so tame that the indigenous hunters could pick it up off of its roost? (2013-04-24)
 * ... that conservation reliant species, which require continuing wildlife management interventions for their survival, comprise 80% of endangered species in the US? (2009-03-02)
 * ... that although the giant fossa, formerly one of the top carnivores of Madagascar, is thought to be extinct, there is some anecdotal evidence of very large living fossas? (2010-06-03)
 * ... that on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the rare and endangered flowers Cyanea superba and Cyanea truncata are threatened by feral pigs and rats, while feral goats are threats to Cyperus trachysanthos? (2011-03-11)
 * ... that Diego (pictured) "had so much sex he saved his species"? (2020-02-14)
 * ... that Dogor, an 18,000-year-old canine puppy, may represent a common ancestor of the dog and the wolf? (2020-01-01)
 * ... that the extinct Australian dromornithids, which included the largest birds known, are related to ducks and geese? (2005-09-28)
 * ... that the tadpoles of the critically endangered Rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog (pictured) literally eat the skin off their fathers' backs? (2012-03-15)
 * ... that every extant individual of the cycad Encephalartos woodii (pictured) is male? (2006-11-20)
 * ... that according to The Sportsman's Repository, English Water Spaniel is the best dog for hunting waterfowl? (2010-02-06)
 * ... that eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination, quarantine, and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease? (2007-12-06)
 * ... that Geograpsus severnsi is the first crab species known to have become extinct? (2011-05-27)
 * ... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus (pictured), were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs? (2010-02-28)
 * ... that the Hare Indian dog, now extinct, was not known to bark, but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the breed was introduced to Europe? (2009-02-23)
 * ... that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle, 500 miles from the sea? (2010-11-01)
 * ... that less than 50 years after being discovered, Heterelmis stephani is now presumed extinct? (2016-11-30)
 * ... that Beth Shapiro's book How to Clone a Mammoth discusses the science involved in resurrection biology and how one would resurrect a mammoth? (2016-04-08)
 * ... that the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved? (2007-07-02)
 * ... that no fungi or algae are listed as endangered or threatened by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board? (2020-02-04)
 * ... that the Long-legged Bunting, an extinct species of Bunting, was one of the few flightless species in the Passerines order? (2008-08-08)
 * ... that no type specimen of the Lord Howe Island Pigeon exists, as it was described from a painting (pictured) by George Raper? (2008-12-17)
 * ... that a stone relief (pictured), now accepted as an extinct Marquesan Dog, was claimed by Thor Heyerdahl to depict a llama to bolster his theory that Polynesia was settled from South America? (2017-03-31)
 * ... that Paul S. Martin and Paul Sidney Martin both worked as anthropologists at the University of Arizona in the early 1970s? (2010-10-01)
 * ... that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag? (2020-05-22)
 * ... that the sloth lemurs   of the genus Mesopropithecus   were once thought to be indriids   due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas? (2010-03-05)
 * ... that Microgale macpheei is the only known recently extinct tenrec? (2010-05-25)
 * ... that Neanderthals went fishing? (2020-05-01)
 * ... that doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s? (2006-10-21)
 * ... that the extinct New Zealand Little Bittern (pictured) was described as always being found alone and standing for hours in one place? (2009-09-23)
 * ... that although the extinct Norfolk Island Boobook was last sighted in 1996, its genes live on in the hybrid descendants of the last living female bird? (2009-04-12)
 * ... that although the Norfolk Island Pigeon was hunted to extinction by humans, its first hunters disappeared from Norfolk Island before it did? (2008-12-14)
 * ... that Amerigo Vespucci may have seen the extinct rodent Noronhomys, otherwise known only from bone remains, on a voyage to the islands of Fernando de Noronha in 1503? (2009-11-20)
 * ... that the extinct Mexican rice rat Oryzomys nelsoni has only been collected once? (2010-03-22)
 * ... that the name Pachylemur, now used for a type of extinct giant lemur, was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between pachyderms and lemurs? (2012-02-14)
 * ... that in 19th-century America, any amateur hunter could kill six passenger pigeons in a single shot (shooting pictured)? (2016-01-25)
 * ... that the shrub Persoonia laxa was found in Sydney but is now presumed extinct? (2016-02-03)
 * ... that the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta has variously been considered a thrush, a starling and a honeyeater? (2010-11-04)
 * ... that the Red Deer Cave people are the youngest prehistoric people discovered who do not appear similar to modern humans? (2012-03-17)
 * ... that the Aldabra banded snail from the Seychelles died out due to climate change? (2009-10-23)
 * ... that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1 September 1964, two days after they were captured? (2010-10-17)
 * ... that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs, referred to as subfossil lemurs, that weighed between 10 and 200 kg? (2010-06-12)
 * ... that Captain James Cook thought the now-extinct Tahitian Dog of the Society Islands tasted like English lamb? (2017-03-26)
 * ... that the Tecopa pupfish was the first animal delisted under the Endangered Species Act because of its extinction? (2011-05-09)
 * ... that endangered arthropods (example pictured) are becoming extinct in such large numbers that many are not catalogued? (2007-02-05)
 * ... that over the history of Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction research, scientists have attributed the demise of the dinosaurs to their large size, small brains, or, more likely, a meteor impact (depicted)? (2017-01-14)
 * ... that Sloan’s Urania (Urania sloanus)  (pictured), a Jamaican day flying moth of the Uraniidae family, was last reported in 1894 or 1895? (2007-10-11)
 * ... that Vanvoorstia bennettiana is the only protist on the IUCN's Red List? (2007-07-16)
 * ... that Vorombe titan, an extinct elephant bird from Madagascar, shared its habitat with dwarf hippos, giant lemurs, and giant tortoises? (2018-12-07)
 * ... that The World's 100 Most Threatened Species includes one (pictured) with only five surviving mature individuals? (2012-09-25)

Featured pictures
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In the News articles
Total pages in content type is 7
 * Alaotra grebe (2010-05-26)
 * Chinese paddlefish (2022-07-22)
 * Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (2010-03-06)
 * Homo floresiensis (2009-11-23)
 * Neanderthal (2010-05-07)
 * Pinta Island tortoise (2012-06-24)
 * Waitaha penguin (2008-11-21)

Main page featured articles
Total pages in content type is 49
 * Archaeoindris (2022-01-23)
 * Babakotia (2018-09-06)
 * Bluebuck (2016-11-17)
 * Broad-billed parrot (2014-07-14)
 * Chicxulub crater (2008-01-08)
 * Choiseul pigeon (2015-09-29)
 * Columbian mammoth (2016-01-29)
 * Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (2008-03-13)
 * Cryptoprocta spelea (2022-09-10)
 * Cuban macaw (2018-12-17)
 * Dire wolf (2017-07-17)
 * Dodo (2013-07-06)
 * Echo parakeet (2019-06-20)
 * Golden swallow (2020-01-30)
 * Great auk (2012-07-03)
 * Guadeloupe amazon (2021-01-28)
 * Homo floresiensis (2004-12-24)
 * Hoopoe starling (2021-10-26)
 * Huia (2013-02-06)
 * King Island emu (2018-06-04)
 * Lesser Antillean macaw (2018-04-09)
 * Mascarene grey parakeet (2019-01-30)
 * Mascarene parrot (2018-10-27)
 * Mauritius blue pigeon (2013-01-02)
 * Mauritius sheldgoose (2023-07-03)
 * Mesopropithecus (2018-11-11)
 * Newton's parakeet (2017-02-17)
 * Noronhomys (2019-07-15)
 * Passenger pigeon (2016-09-01)
 * Quagga (2014-08-12)
 * Red rail (2016-06-02)
 * Réunion ibis (2020-08-28)
 * Réunion swamphen (2022-12-20)
 * Rodrigues night heron (2023-11-06)
 * Rodrigues parrot (2020-01-10)
 * Rodrigues solitaire (2019-10-28)
 * Rodrigues starling (2020-04-03)
 * St. Croix macaw (2020-11-12)
 * Sea mink (2017-11-22)
 * Seychelles parakeet (2023-06-29)
 * Smilodon (2017-01-03)
 * Spotted green pigeon (2017-09-27)
 * Steller's sea cow (2017-09-02)
 * Subfossil lemur (2018-04-29)
 * Tahiti rail (2019-09-13)
 * Thylacine (2008-12-29)
 * White swamphen (2022-06-08)
 * Woolly mammoth (2014-10-24)
 * Rodrigues rail (2020-07-31)

Main page featured lists
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 * Timeline of the far future (2014-11-10)

Picture of the day pictures
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