Extinct Animals: An Encyclopedia of Species that Have Disappeared During Human History

Many animals have disappeared over the last 50,000 plus years. This book covers these, from the giant flesh eating birds and sabre‐toothed marsupials to the golden toad of Costa Rica which became extinct as recently as 1989 (after only being discovered in 1964!).

Six mass extinctions have happened through history and no doubt there will be more although the cause of these is not definite. In the introduction, these six are described in more detail with the seventh extinction described as what we could “actually be living in the middle of” now. This mass extinction is caused, of course, by...