The California condor and the Arabian oryx would both have been extinct now in the wild had it not been for successful breeding programmes in captivity, Mr Tudge said.
The wild buffalo (Bubalus arnee) is extinct now.
Earwigs At 80mm, the St Helena Giant Earwig (Labidura herculeana) was the largest earwig in the world - but now it is extinct.
"Every butterfly biologist who knew anything about the quino in the mid-1990s thought it would be extinct by now, including me," said Prof Camille Parmesan of the Marine Sciences Institute at Plymouth University.
This resilient creature, the only ferret that is native to North America, has several times been declared extinct; now it is making a tremulous comeback.The black-footed ferret got into trouble because, unlike its European cousins, it likes eating only one thing: prairie dogs.
It has been extinct for many years and now residesonly because of the very low bar set for MPs to be given the nonsensical label.
Were it not for close-up footage of your species looking cute you'd be extinct by now.
These tired old beasts were supposed to be extinct by now.
It is now extinct at the type locality, but the date and cause of the extinction are uncertain.
However, these dogs weren't as good as the cats at this technique – and all the canid species who used it are now extinct.
