What animals went extinct over the past 500 years?

Here is a list of some animals that have gone extinct over the past 500 years:

- Dodo (_Raphus cucullatus_)

- Passenger pigeon (_Ectopistes migratorius_)

- Great auk (_Pinguinus impennis_)

- Caribbean monk seal (_Monachus tropicalis_)

- Japanese wolf (_Canis lupus hodophilax_)

- Tasmanian tiger (_Thylacinus cynocephalus_)

- Cuban macaw (_Ara tricolor_)

- Spix's macaw (_Cyanopsitta spixii_)

- Carolina parakeet (_Conuropsis carolinensis_)

- Heath hen (_Tympanuchus cupido cupido_)

- Passenger pigeon (_Ectopistes migratorius_)

- Great auk (_Pinguinus impennis_)

- Moa (_Dinornis robustus_)

- Steller's sea cow (_Hydrodamalis gigas_)

- Barbary lion (_Panthera leo leo_)

- Atlas bear (_Ursus arctos crowtheri_)

- Pyrenean ibex (_Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica_)

- Baiji (_Lipotes vexillifer_)

- Yangtze giant softshell turtle (_Rafetus swinhoei_)

- Northern white rhinoceros (_Ceratotherium simum cottoni_)

- Western black rhinoceros (_Diceros bicornis longipes_)

- Javan rhinoceros (_Rhinoceros sondaicus_)

- Sumatran rhinoceros (_Dicerorhinus sumatrensis_)

- Eastern gorilla (_Gorilla beringei graueri_)

- Mountain gorilla (_Gorilla beringei beringei_)

- Orangutan (_Pongo pygmaeus_)