Endling
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(Tasmanian tiger), photographed at Hobart Zoo in 1933 An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature.
(Tasmanian tiger), photographed at Hobart Zoo in 1933]] An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature. ==References== ==External links== What Do You Call the Last of a Species? by Michelle Nijhuis for The New Yorker Cut from history by Eric Freedman for Knight Center for Environmental Journalism Bringing Them Back to Life by Carl Zimmer for National Geographic Magazine.
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