Extinct Animals of North America-Pictures

The Islands quiz gave me the idea to do more of these. There are actually quite a few pleistocene animals, from giant beavers to gomphotheres, which might have survived into the earliest Holocene per uncalibrated radiocarbon dates. Leaving most of these out as it is not always clear if they actually made it into the last 10,000 years. Kept mammoths, dire wolves, and steppe bison on here as it is pretty likely they made it into the early holocene, with Mammoths and steppe bison possibly making it into the middle Holocene 5,000-6,000 years ago per finds and environmental DNA evidence from Alaska. The other species died out in the last 200 years. It is definitely not impossible that several of those species still exist. Eg the rocky mountain locust is not known from its grasshopper morph, so it could exist as an unidentified solitary grasshopper species. The imperial woodpeckers last stronghold is cartel country, so searching for survivors is not safe. The ivorybill still gets sightings.