Extinct Animals 2019 Australia. Extinction of taxa is difficult to confirm, as a long gap without a sighting is not definitive, but before 1995 a threshold of 50 years without a sighting was used to declare. One would think that by now, humanity’s continued attacks on the unique animals.
The australian museum has an extensive collection of australia's deadliest animals to find out more about why they are so dangerous to humans. These are known as extinct animals. A further 10 mammals are “critically endangered”.
Australia is in the midst of an animal extinction crisis and the loss of almost 20 unique species in coming years is inevitable without drastic change.
Over the last century, nearly 500 species have perished from earth, mostly at the hand of the human race. Species have likely already gone extinct in australia's catastrophic bushfires and experts warn it may take a decade to find out which ones due to lack of staff and expertise. The brown area shows the range of the koala (phascolarctos cinereus). We lost a lot of species in 2019.
