Should More Species Be Extinct?

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The official number of extinct species is wrong… why?

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Species featured in this video:
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Fat Catfish
- Blanco Blind Salamander
- Seychelles Giant Tortoise
- Black-browed Babbler
- Coelacanth

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[PhilTruthborne]

Personally i think we should just make the MIA category more widely known. Extinct is a strong and effective word but if it can't reasonably be used we kinda do need a good alternative for these cases.

[TerenceClark]

The coelacanth species in the fossil record are absolutely extinct. What we found is another species in that order, the coelacanthiformes. The living species are pretty distantly related to the fossil coelacanths. They're just a lot more closely related to them than to anything else. I'm not trying to be annoyingly pedantic, but since we're talking about the species level it's good to be precise about what we found with the coelacanth.

[sakurakitsunestar]

Maybe we need a in-between stage for those missing creatures like we have endlings for species with too low a population count to not become eventually extinct

[BennoWitter]

Wollemia nobilis have been thought to be extinct for 65 million years and in 1994, they found this plant hidden in Australia. There are only 100 plants left on earth, one being in a small park in Germany, so they might become extinct again.

[davidg]

Ivory-billed woodpecker sightings haven't been confirmed, but there is growing evidence they are critically endangered, but not extinct.
Mark Michaels, of Project Principalis, and his team just recently published in the scientific journal _Ecology and Evolution_ about their decade-long survey in Louisana where they collected strong evidence for the ivory-billed still be with us. Some of his work can be found here on YT, also.
It's not definitive, but the evidence is mounting.

[jeromeorji]

"The list of extinct species is incomplete. You can help by expanding it"

[MrARock]

There's also "functionally extinct" where there are known individuals still alive, but so few that the species will never recover and the individuals no longer provide a meaningful ecosystem function, like the northern white rhino.

Given the broad definition that "there is not enough genetic diversity in the population left for it to recover" this could actually expand the number of species to ones with quite high overall populations, but whose genetic capacity to repopulate, due to habitat destruction / isolation of breeding populations, means that without drastic human intervention, species like the koala could be considered functionally extinct.

[ebonyblack]

It's a shame that we can't have more accuracy due to the predation of companies that'd happily swoop in if more species were classified in the way that's believed.

[RobertMilesAI]

Probably they should have an extra category, like "presumed extinct", for such species

[boy]

My biggest takeaway from the video is knowing there's a catfish simply called the fat catfish.

Anyone knows its scientific name?

[Memezndreamz]

I think a good idea is to make a category named presumably extinct. This will allow for animals that are possibly not extinct to be labeled based on their length of MIA, but the title will make people presume that they may still be alive to make sure protection acts aren’t disabled.

[NickWrightDataYT]

1:04 "There are almost certainly species that we know of, that have gone extinct, and we haven't noticed"
The idea that this could be true is shocking and depressing. Wow.

[KnightSlasher]

When there is a will there is a way and these species are fighting hard enough to stay hidden from us which is a good thing sadly

[CraftyFX]

Boy that fish blew my mind, it's like finding a dinosaur alive.

[PIXELPLEXYT]

There is only one animal species I want to go extinct.
It's the mosquitoes.

[ellotheearthling]

The Blanco Blind Salamander hasn’t been seen for so long likely because it lives in a place that’s extremely hard to reach, in fact, there’s only a single confirmed sighting of them in their natural habitat

[slametdinatadinata]

A commenter said that they have seen an ivory-billed woodpecker 1 minute ago, from what i can remember.

[pierreabbat]

There are species, such as the Lilliputian violet, which have been found only once, despite repeated search. Close behind is the Niumbaha bat (the name means "rare"), which has been found only five times, in places widely spread across Africa. How can we tell if these are extinct?

[babilon]

People tend to do the same with their hair. They refuse to admit that their gone. The fact of admitting alone has some kind of finality to it. And it can end all efforts to save them. So even when someone hasn't seen their hair for years, they don't like it being pointed out.

[Joe-.]

"This list of extinct species is incomplete, you can help by expanding it!"