Recently Extinct Animals 2024 Recently. According to the international union for the conservation of nature (iucn) red list, more than 42,000 species are currently threatened with extinction, representing over a quarter of all. Species have gone extinct at a much higher rate than is expected with evolution, but some have been found after researchers thought they were gone.

While some animals have already vanished from our planet, others are teetering on the edge. The proposal recommends taking almost two dozen species.