Final Videos of EXTINCT or LOST Species

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In this video, we're looking at the final videos recorded of 8 extinct or lost species. We'll look at:
1. Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)
2. Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer)
3. Chinese Paddlefish (Psephurus gladius)
4. Kaua'i ʻōʻō (Moho braccatus)
5. Laysan Honeycreeper (Himatione fraithii)
6. Laysan Rail (Porzana palmeri)
7. Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido)
8. Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

[@chamfv]

This is very sad for some reason. When the Kauai ō ō called for a mate for the last time, I evoked a tear jerking feeling in me.

[@MuertaRara]

i actually cried the first time i heard it...

[@CJM-rg5rt]

That freaking broke my heart.

[@RogueT-Rex8468]

Gonna make it worse for you- apparently the guy who recorded it played it back to check what he’d got. Doing so made the bird rush back.

[@CJM-rg5rt]

@@RogueT-Rex8468 screw you lol

[@freja9398]

Same 🥺

[@Theel25]

It's a blessing in disguise that we even have footage of extinct animals in the first place, especially some in the wild. Knowing that they're gone forever and all we have left are pieces of recording that was only made 150 years ago is mindboggling.

[@HxlllxwPxxintS2]

Indeed

[@Katepuzzilein]

What I find fascinating is that one of the extinct paddlefish species was identified very recently and we have direct evidence of what they went extinct from: They were found in the very terminal cretaceous Hell Creek formation near Tanis, North Dakota with glass droplets from the Chicxulub impact still in their gills. It was also more closely related to the chinese paddlefish than to the american one

[@shadowpulpfan1810]

I had not heard of that paddlefish fossil. Thank you! There was a video I say on PBS, I think it was 'The Day the Dinosaurs Died'. It may have been a similar video that showed how the effects from that asteroid would have rolled over the Earth. The firestorm didn't hit everywhere, but the additional effects eventually did. The only creatures that had a realistic chance of surviving that event were hidden underground and similar habitats. The small scavenging omnivores inherited the Earth. That was the day I went from being curious about reports of possible late surviving dinosaur era mega-fauna, to being convinced that it's a physically impossible. There may be an animal behind some of those sightings, but the interpretation doesn't match the evidence.

[@Katepuzzilein]

@@shadowpulpfan1810 Should be Parasephurus willybemisi. The Tanis site is fascinating in general. Apparently it is from the first few minutes after the impact and formed when seiche waves from the earthquakes dumped sediment everywhere. And I'm calling it: If we ever find post-Cretaceous non avian Dinosaurs it's gonna be some random small Troodontid or Enantiornithine

[@CalvesFanatic]

All of these are so sad. I find the Hawaiian birds the saddest, as so many died so quickly :/ I have to say that the Heath Hen in tragic as well. Efforts were going so well and it was just a stroke of poor luck that ended them.

[@eljanrimsa5843]

It was well-intended but risky to keep the whole population in one place. I guess we would give away some to a captive breeding program or a different suitable protected area nowadays to have a backup because a storm or disease can always wipe out the small group.

[@jointcerulean3350]

On the topic of recently extinct species, there was an endemic species of horned crocodile that lived in Madagascar called Voay Robustus. The island also harbored a population of Nile crocodiles that colonized the island at some point in the late or early Holocene from what I can tell, or perhaps even earlier. Though on the topic of this species of Madagascar Horned crocodile, it was a predominantly terrestrial species much like the Cuban crocodile which were living in fully terrestrial ecosystem in the Bahamas and Dominican Republic. Voay robustus was notable for being exceptionally robust, even more so than the Nile croc and even the Cuban crocodile. And had giant horns and a deep tall skull, large teeth, and robust limb and limb griddle elements showing adaptation for a more terrestrial habitation, and spending more time on land hunting for prey than in the water. Also the species grew to 16 foot, and we’re Madagascar’s largest predominantly terrestrial carnivore, and in certain Populations Was likely living in fully terrestrial ecosystems like the Cuban crocodile. Also what’s really fascinating it’s that Evon Hekkela a scientist and geneticist researching about crocodile in Madagascar found that quite surprisingly voay robustus the horned Madagascar crocodile persisted up until the 1860s and locals and explores reported two kinds of crocodiles that resided on the island. Also the locals said there was a more water bound species and another that was very robust that lived in the island. And I remember even hearing reports of pigmy Madagascar hippos in the early 1800s mentioned as well.

[@theroguepooper_420diarrhea7]

I discovered this channel like a month ago and I love all your videos!! Very good quality and informative (I’m an educator at a local national wildlife refuge)

[@all.about.nature1987]

Thanks so much!

[@justsomeguy4206]

After seeing this video, I’ve become rather fascinated by the tragic story of the Kaua’i ō’ō. The sound of the last male making his last mating call before disappearing forever is beautifully haunting. He was calling out for a female that will never come. Poor fella was the last of his kind with no hope of his species continuing and to him, he was just trying to find a mate, but didn’t have luck and was going to try again some other time. Unfortunately, since the Kaua’i ō’ō was never heard from again since then, the last male must’ve died shortly after. It’s also sad to know that this subspecies was the last of their family and the whole species went extinct after when the Kaua’i ō’ō went extinct. I’m glad we had gotten at least a small amount of footage of their existence instead of nothing at all.

[@LittleBarracuda]

In Lausanne Switzerland theres a BIG aquarium with probably hundreds of paddlefish. They were absolutely fascinating and i cant imagine one the size of an extinct one 🤯

[@dagoodboy6424]

Paddlefish when seeing the construction going on in thier habitat: "Well dam..."

[@truffles2721]

If only people would have just left them alone.

[@aaronsanders4122]

The sad thing is that scientists could see the collapse of some species coming, especially the animals from China and yet nothing was done

[@s.tavares3257]

China is the absolute worst country when it comes to that.

[@thomasmills3934]

Congrats on the channel. One of the best "new" channels on youtube.

[@all.about.nature1987]

Thanks. I'm extremely thankful for the recent traction it has gained.

[@baref1959]

"The last known thylacine, an old female, died in 1936 at Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. In 2022, researchers discovered the thylacine's remains in a museum cupboard and confirmed that it was an old female, not a male named Benjamin as previously thought."

[@kbw6681]

Very educative, very entertaining. Please keep up the good work

[@CJM-rg5rt]

It is educative (great channel) but "entertaining" is quite possible the last adjective I'd use. That's reserved for his videos on animals that we hadn't banished from existence.. yet.

[@Dan55888]

Wow, I really liked the Hawaii bird call... sad...

[@DigitalinDaniel]

We have a photo of the Barbary Lion, Quagga, and Passenger Pigeon. There's videos of Lonesome George, Golden Toad, Western Black Rhino, Northern White Rhino, and Bramble Cay Melomys. The Vaquita while not literally extinct is all but gone. The Hawaiian and Moorean tree snail also went extinct not too long ago... I know we have video of the Hawaiian one. Hawaii has also lost hundreds of plant species, it's an island apocalypse.

[@Kurominos1]

well its an island after all its a very own and unique ecosystem not ment for tousands of humans living there non stop (humans need a lot of space and food compared to most similar sized animals) and yes even the humans who say they live in harmony with nature can and will make creatures go extinct simply by overhunting them and then you get the 100 tousand ppl on the island making holidays there even other areas suffer a lot of way to many humans are there in northern europe we have to fence of so many breeding areas for birds cause ppl wil lgo there to "see" the birds and trample on nests and even chicks without even realising or caring jsut cause they want to film the birds

[@DigitalinDaniel]

@@Kurominos1 Hawaii has endless problems, humans also introduced rats... then introduced mongoose to kill the rats, but mongoose kill all the easier natives instead. Feral Pigs, Chickens, and Cows... the domestic ones aren't helping either. Mosquitoes...

[@Kurominos1]

dont forgett they also introduced after realising the mongooses didnt helped barn owls and the owls instead of hunting the rats killing seabirds now @@DigitalinDaniel

[@s.tavares3257]

Is that your real voice? I like the calm delivery. Keep up the good work.

[@Specogecko]

What sucks is they did attempt to relocate some Yangtze River dolphins into a lake, in this same lake were a population of Yangtze finless porpoise. Unfortunately the dolphins just never seemed to flourish

[@Kurominos1]

well if an naimal is meant to live in a big fast flowing river its not really happy to live in a lake lakes and rivers are just way to diffrent from each other thers some spec who can livein both but a lot will prefer one over the other

[@bluebutterfly590]

Love these kinds of videos!! 🔥🔥

[@pendragonsxskywalkers9518]

One correction - the vid of Thylacie is NOT a last Thylacine. Vid shows a male - the last Thylacine was female ♀. Vid was long believed to be endling os species which cretated legend of male being last. However, female remains were discovered in 2022 in museum collection. Filmed specimen is male from 1935. Female was caught in May 1936 and passed in September.

[@gemfyre855]

I was about to mention this, but I did some research first and discovered, the Thylacine in the video was never called Benjamin. That name came from some tale a guy spread in the 1960s, he claimed to have worked at the zoo, but someone did some digging and found that he never did. He also lied about the Thylacines being fed live rabbits and the fact that they were silent.

[@Tabth3778]

I always get especially sad when I see the video of that tasmanian tiger, and how it's entirely the fault of humans that they are gone

[@Kurominos1]

kinda but kinda not it already weas gone from mainland australia before european settlemans came to it cause it got outcompetet by the ancestors of the Dino there prob if humans never made it to australia or tasmania Dingos would have made it to tasmania at some point and wiped the tylacine out there too

[@MuertaRara]

the extinction rate of Hawai'i is just tragic 😔

[@hunterlittle3843]

Keep it up! Extremely underrated channel

[@danielbaker1510]

love your videos very informative

[@user-kt8yp5ho2y]

3:22 Chinese Lake dolphin 6:21 Chinese Paddle fish

[@shadowpulpfan1810]

Chinese Sturgeon only survives in captivity, but the ones that have been released don't seem to breed or live long in the polluted Yangtze. 😞

[@RayxKid]

Your videos are awesome 🤩!!

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

So much of this channel’s content as of late has been about extinct or dying species. Something like a video about the most successful wild animals today would be nice

[@kedrickd7]

Then make the video how are you going to tell someone what to do on there page?

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

@@kedrickd7 what?

[@galebailey5583]

There is a video on KZbin of the dusky seaside sparrow, now extinct. Your video was excellent; please make a part two. There must be other videos of lost species out there.

[@shadowpulpfan1810]

Yes, the dusky seaside sparrow, the first animal species casualty of the space race. Not a particularly flashy species of sparrow, but still a unique species that is now gone.

[@scottwhite2757]

Excellent work..

[@YouDontGnomeMe]

You make great content!

[@figodwnnieto2581]

Another fantastic and insightful video. It's extremely sad how many species have gone extinct in my grandmother's lifetime, especially when in so much of that time authorities could've done things to help stop such extinctions. Having videos of some of these creatures is amazing, but the records of the bird calls is somewhat haunting knowing that at that point they wouldn't be heard ever again.

[@angelinanguyen8690]

Yay another video!

[@DHRFC]

I feel sad for the Kauai ō ō, still waiting on a love in heaven😢

[@Ched_D_Bitcoiner]

Great Job!

[@systemofaslipstatic]

😢 great video good work on all the research. I find this so sad especially the last one. The poor thylacine it was hunted relentlessly. I can believe they worked so hard to eradicate such an iconic animal. Now everyone searches for it.

[@RideWithDaan]

So satisfying to fall asleep to this😊❤

[@danielhooper502]

Brief correction, the sycamore gap tree was cut down by an old man, not a teenager

[@connorvandeventer3418]

I love your videos i wish all of us couldve seen these animals one more time at least and i hope one day we can either find them again or bring them back from extinction

[@alexejg2674]

Man that male bird calling for a mate with out knowing theres no left that he is the last one and when he dies the speacies is dead... and the chirpink sounds allot sadder if you find out that the bird dosent exist. [Bad english]

[@mistynorman3172]

Human beings has ruined everything 💔

[@tameursgarden148]

I watched a video on the Thylacine, which revealed that the last one "Benjamin" was actually a female

[@all.about.nature1987]

It's a complicated story, which I actually edited out of this video in the end. Benjamin was the last Thylacine on display, but the Hobart zoo did acquire a female after Benjamin and her remains were confirmed after parts of her taxidermied body were tracked down in a museum collection.

[@yvettefilgo5383]

About 10yrs ago I saw a pair of Ivory Billed wd pckrs in Palo alto CA.

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

We are lucky we have videos of these extinct creatures. We can preserve their legacy through the videos.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

For a second I thought this would be your final video on the subject

[@user-kt8yp5ho2y]

Recently, China introduced the American cousin to bring back their paddlefish. But, even with this, the effort to bring back the Chinese paddlefish won’t be successful because of China’s polluted ecosystem and due to American paddlefish being very different from Chinese ones and it will take a long time to adapt to the new habitats. Also, it will take a long time for they’ll evolve even if they adopt the new habitats.

[@ilykaaay]

i made the patreon page 🎉🎉 keep up the good work

[@No1.OriginalTrilogyStarWarsFan]

Would you be able to do a video on the Haast's eagle and moa at some point please. Thanks

[@XoADREADNOUGHT]

The economy did not prosper during the Great Leap Forward. It flatlined, and 30 million minimum starved under Mao's policies, along with another 30 million executed. It was not until the 70s/80s when the CCP dropped a Communist socialist economy and replaced it with a western style capitalist economy.

[@thatonepossum5766]

20:20 everything changed when the fire nation attacked. 😔

[@QuickManSimp]

This video always depresses me, I come back to it a lot because I love imagining how these animals used to live back when they were alive and if they were still alive today, it’s upsetting that we won’t get to see such incredible species anymore because of our selfish actions

[@No1.OriginalTrilogyStarWarsFan]

Another great video mate. So sad that settlers had to introduce other animals that caused extinction

[@Jogyot3260]

To me, death is already depressing thing happens in life but extinction is even more than it already is, things are worse when you almost succeed to prevent their extinction then something unwanted that is inevitable happen

[@SAUBER_KH7]

Hi, what is the name of the background music used?

[@charliekezza]

This video makes me incredibly sad 😭😭😭

[@simonjourney1586]

Whats the ambient background music? Anyone got an id?

[@bananathatplays]

Hi, I love your content but would like to point out a small correction, it's very sad that we lost the thylacine but the last speciman was not Benjamin, nor was it a male, the myth eventually became so popular that it's almost always stated that it was Benjamin, yet Benjamin never existed

[@charliejones7512]

I think they arrested more people, talking of the Sycamore Gap. That’s what I heard at least.

[@theascendingphoenix2013]

nice!

[@sarapugh6700]

wow, that is so haunting to hear the o-o bird calls! very poignant and moving.

[@pranavhaldar1943]

Bro have you forgot about royal Bengal tiger you didn't mention in any of your extinction to comeback video

[@allayam5649]

Hello I would like to now the music you use ❤

[@Roar8384]

“If I die, in this world… who will know something of me”

[@volvos70t51]

Just found your channel, amazing videos and subscribed!...what about doing a video on the Steller's Sea Cow?. For such a large animal that Humans made extinct (90 years after we made the Dodo extinct) it doesn't seem to get very much recognition.

[@all.about.nature1987]

I'll add it to my list

[@user-qw5pm6lr9d]

I heard and saw an ivory-billed woodpecker in the summer of 2018.

[@fundude6127]

Jesus Christ the heath hen literally had the worst year ever and fucking died. Like the worst luck imaginable

[@eugenehatin.420]

These videos break my heart and make me disgusted to be a human being. We NEED TO DO BETTER.

[@Glassandcandy]

It’s strange to see how many fresh water animals are only or primarily found in China and the southern United States. Paddle fish, alligators, various kinds of turtles, gara, etc. I guess it must be because the Yangtze and Mississippi water sheds are the only watersheds in the right climate zone to support most of these animals

[@rolobrown123]

I’d like to believe the ivory is still alive, there’s still a lot of woodlands in Louisiana

[@Danimalsfan]

Not enough.

[@ericbeeman8717]

Use to find these random fish at creeks around here I've never been able to identify ever one was what I called a dog fish resembled the monkfish big head lots teeth small body mainly bottom dweller 3 to 4in use to catch em on corn pieces these other 2 one was a small 2 to 3in bottom dweller looked like a goby sorta flat belly kinda used front fins to walk would sorta swim if it was scared but had color rings down its body tried take one to biology in school but by time I got it there in alcohol it had lost all colors and was silver the other one was a long black n white striped fish similar to convict cichlid but stretched out and it had this long slinder snout wasn't normal for a fish tried to catch it but was to fast then year or 2 after that they dredged the creeks by where I lived and that killed off so many ecosystems at these creeks the creek dried up for miles towards town once ya got n town they dumped raw sewage n chemicals in the creeks so nothing much lived there

[@fupmi]

Wasnt the ivory billed woodpecker actually sighted lately?

[@TANGYHATCHY]

From what I can tell any “footage” that’s recent is too inconclusive; but there DOES appear to be more people educated people on the subject talking about seeing them in the past 5 years. I also keep seeing people make claims about seeing it in North Carolina relatively often.

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

@@TANGYHATCHYsome ornithologist do believe it to be an Ivory Billed due to the white feathers on the underwing and the flying patterns in the 2004 video, but indeed we can’t say with absolute certainty.

[@Kurominos1]

yeah but for some reason this hug as bird never get filmed or pics taken in them odern time where literally already 2 year olds have theyr own phone and it takes 10 seconds to start a video same with they never came on the idea to jsut gather like 1.000 ppl and jsut walk trough the forest if these birds are still alive then they would been seen by these ppl then @@TANGYHATCHY

[@MountainHomeJerrel]

Jeez, this video is really bumming me out.

[@ceazarsalad4414]

that last call of the o'o makes me so sad i wanna sob and throw up LMAOOO

[@paytonkent2978]

I swear! I might have layed eyes on the ivory billed woodpecker. One day at my parents a woodpecker was up in the trees pecking away and I swear it had a red Mohawk.

[@evelynhinman3192]

My sister in South East Georgia said she saw what she believed to be an Ivory Billed Woodpecker. She saw it in late February 2024.

[@TheAlmightyChaos]

Seeing the bajie river dolphin in captivity made me cry 😢and I can't believe China could be so cruel to a miracle of nature.

[@Gabs_Labs]

That's very sad!

[@MuertaRara]

😢😢😢

[@TheRealBrizy]

So the first bird is extinct????? I see woodpeckers that look identical to them flying around my property almost daily in the u.s..... maybe theres another species of woodpecker that looks like it????? Im so confused right now

[@all.about.nature1987]

The ones you see are Pileated Woodpeckers and almost every reported sighting of Ivory Billed Woodpeckers in the US has been misidentified Pileated Woodpeckers.

[@TheRealBrizy]

@@all.about.nature1987 thank you for educating me I was so confused lol

[@Yairtabora]

RIP

[@musicmaniacsfun8412]

😭😭😭

[@JulioCesar-ez6wf]

Poor Heath Hen, People even tried, But Iguess the bird didn't had luck.😭

[@DragonFruitXVI]

0:36 Local my butt. They were not from the country let alone the area.

[@rudyruiz9521]

I think taking one of the last ones to study with a population so low is a tragedy. Our knowledge of it doesn't mean anything. Saving the habitat or leaving one last male or female could make the difference.

[@Themenace.]

The heath hen was like coming back but then it got absolutely shit on by nature and us

[@elermajr]

SAD😥😢

[@winniechang5032]

I’m Chinese or Taiwanese but I’m still Chinese the paddlefish was actually relocated but eventually died I’m assuming I don’t remember a lot but yeah it was relocated and then a long time later it died

[@DigitalRag3X]

13:04 🫠🫥🥲 I knew already but why…..

[@kapibutka_TV]

В 1985 году было заснято ещё одно видео мохо

[@Bazibishop]

So depressing

[@skysthelimitvideos]

Vidoes like this make me hate our species sometimes

[@Glassandcandy]

The thylacine is almost certainly extinct. I’ve seen the “evidence” and it’s unconvincing. I won’t say it 100% definitely is, but I really do think that the vast majority of speculation is wishful thinking.

[@enzoguevara6699]

Do the eggs of the elephant birds

[@DonkeysYears16]

China be messin up!

[@DonkeysYears16]

Come on US. Get your stuff together!

[@morbiddawg]

Bittersweet video Hopefully, none will follow, but with the current state of the planet, i doubt it

[@Kurominos1]

to be honest its sad to see so many creatures go exticnt and yes a lot more iwll follow cause the planet cant support so many humans and theyr needs and animals at the same time especially ones who are a lot more demanding on where they want to live but on the other hand earth seen way worse like the permian exticntion the silurian one or the one where the dinosaurs bite the dust later on the ones where europe conectet to africa the one where america conectet to asia or the one where north and south america conectet not to fogett the time the iceage killed off most warmth loving creatures and then all the thigns adaptet to the iceage went extinct when it endet and still today we have so many diffrent animals and plants means even after this great exticntion now new animals and plants will appear but humans will prob not be one of the survivng species in the end

[@Daviday]

Don't want to sound like i'm trying to dictate you or anything, but I would suggest posting videos in the morning (not at 1am morning). It will help the video get off to a better start since I assume most of your audience is american, and it's late night early morning for them. Keep up the great work also. I have been loving the videos!

[@aDaewooLanos]

It's all about time zones. It's 7:15pm Saturday night for me right now.

[@morbiddawg]

It's 2 pm here in the Philippines so it's okay

[@hrep14]

What has posting time got to do with it. You can watch it anytime after it's been posted.

[@jillianblake575]

Saturday 7.30pm Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

[@Todomo]

i didn’t even realize this video was so new!!!!! i’m going to bed now which is when i put these videos on as i just listen to the audio. it’s a saturday night, the video came out at 7-8pm for me

[@kb.libra9757]

The passenger pigeon another once abundant bird now extinct

[@user-bl6vb3vk5q]

I seen this woodpecker every year in my yard. In canad😊❤

[@Thumper17]

You're likely seeing a Pileated Woodpecker, which looks similar.

[@lamskha3922]

Yeah woodpecker already extinct 😢😢

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

No, not according to the 2004 bayou footage.

[@Googers503]

After this I need something positive.

[@iprincemajestic2.0]

We have to do better.

[@studywithashlie]

🤍🤍🤍