![]() ![]() Notable extinct animal species include non-avian dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, dodos, mammoths, ground sloths, thylacines, trilobites and golden toads. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out. ![]() ![]() This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds ( taxon), usually a species. ![]()
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