A native to Turkey, Iran, the Caspian Sea, Afghanistan and Xinjiang region administered by China, Caspian Tiger were declared extinct in 2003. They went extinct due to excessive hunting in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Native to the United States, the green and pale creatures lived in huge, noisy flocks of as many as 200-300 birds. The destruction of their habitat in the 18th and 19th centuries is known to have played a big role in their extinction.
The Heath hen, a large North American bird, was hunted extensively for food. They went extinct in 1932.
The first dolphin species known to have been driven to extinction due to the impact of humans, Baiji was native to the Yangtze River system in China.
The extinct species of the true toad was native to Costa Rica. A poster child for the amphibian decline crisis, the last sighting of a single male golden toad was on 15 May 1989.
The migratory habits of the species gave it the name passenger. The extinct species native to North America, Passenger pigeons were hunted by Native Americans, but hunting intensified after the arrival of Europeans, particularly in the 19th century.