Five Unique Species That Recently Went Extinct

Extinction isn’t just for dinosaurs

Skeletal remains of an arctic sea cow displayed in a museum. (Daderot / CC0)

According to scientists, roughly 99.9% of all species to ever existed on Earth have gone extinct over the course of history. When people think of extinct animals, many minds go straight to the dinosaurs, the most prominent example of a type of animal that no longer exists. However, you do not need to go back millions of years…