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7 last photos of extinct animals Ever Taken | part 3
Extinction has always been part of nature, but because of humans, it is now happening at a speed the world has never seen. It is moving ten thousand times faster than natural rates. Every single year, nearly one hundred thousand species vanish. By the time you finish watching this video, at least one more living creature will be gone completely.
Back in the 1800s, cameras were invented, and animal documentation changed forever. For the first time, we could capture creatures before they vanished. That is why in today's video, I am going to show you the last photos of seven extinct animals ever caught on camera.
Number 7. Great Auk.
Have you ever heard of a bird that looked like a penguin but lived in the north and could not fly? It was called the Great Auk. It was small, weighing about five kilos, and it lived on the freezing coasts of Canada, Greenland, and Northern Europe. It spent its life near the water, hunting fish to survive.
But the Great Auk had a strange habit that became its downfall. Each year, it laid only one egg. That single egg was white, large, and marked with black and brown patterns. It carried the entire future of the species, but it also made them incredibly easy targets.
In the 1800s, people hunted the bird without mercy. Some wanted its meat, while others prized its feathers. Therefore, its numbers fell fast, shrinking until almost nothing remained. The last Great Auks were seen in 1844 on a lonely island near Iceland.
The image you see on screen right now shows the preserved remains of this bird. Because no cameras existed in 1844, a living image was never captured. But these feathers and bones still rest today in museums, staring out from behind glass. It is a reminder that millions of birds once filled the coasts, but because of human actions, they are now just a memory.
Number 6. Eastern Cougar.
The animal you are looking at right now is the Eastern Cougar. It was a subspecies of the modern cougar, also known as the mountain lion or panther. In fact, this is the very animal that inspired the famous Puma brand logo.
As its name shows, it lived in the forests of Eastern America. It was smaller than today's cougars, with a reddish coat, a short tail, and a strong body. For centuries, it was a top predator that hunted deer and rabbits, helping to keep the entire ecosystem in balance.
But in the 19th century, everything changed. Europeans cut down forests to build homes, and they cleared massive amounts of land for farming. Their habitat shrank, and their natural prey declined. Therefore, the cougars turned to livestock like sheep and goats to survive.
Farmers saw them as a threat, so the killing spread fast. By 1938, the last known Eastern Cougar was shot in Maine. Decades later, on January 22nd, 2018, the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the species officially extinct.
Now, only a handful of old photos remain, like the one you see here. It is a fading reminder of a predator that once ruled the forests of the east, erased because it had nowhere left to r.....