Extinct Animals List 2024 In. The iucn red list categories and criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. Species have gone extinct at a much higher rate than is expected with evolution, but some have been found after researchers thought they were gone.

Explore the growing threats to 1,000 species. They classify animals in various conservation statuses (depending on their number and population trends), including ‘least concern’, ‘threatened’, ‘endangered’, and lastly ‘extinct’.