10 animals that have gone extinct in the past decade

The Bloomberg reported that several species of wild animals have gone extinct over the past 10 years.

Also, some species have completely extinct from the wild.

Christmas Island forest skink was a species of lizard. The last known representative of this species named Gump died on May 31, 2014.

Charco Palma pupfish was a species of small fish of the Cyprinodontidae family that lived in Mexico.

Christmas Island pipistrelle was a species of vesper bat that lived only on this island. The last time a representative of this species was spotted in 2009 with no further sightings of this bats despite intensive searches.

Abingdon Island tortoise was a subspecies of elephantopus turtles. It lived on the island of Pinta (Galapogos Islands), so it has another name – the Pinta Island tortoise. By the end of the twentieth century, the population of the turtle was almost destroyed due to hunting. The last representative – a turtle named Lonesome George – died in 2012.

Animals Extinct in the Wild:

The gecko from Christmas Island, or the Lister’s gecko, was a species of lizards of the Gekkonidae family.

The saber-horned antelope, or Saharan Oryx, was a type of antelope that inhabited the steppes and deserts of North Africa.

Kihansi spray toad was a species of frogs that lived near Kihansi River waterfall in Tanzania.

Hawaiian crow was a species of bird once an inhabitant of areas of the Hawaiian Islands.