The Falkland Islands Wolf: The Tragic Tale Of The First Known Canid Humans Drove To Extinction

From IFLScience.com:

If people were to know anything about the animals of the Falkland Islands, it’d be likely to be the fact that there are a lot of sheep – but there never used to be. Before the arrival of European settlers in the late 1700s, there was only one land mammal native to these isles. Only a little over 100 years later, it was gone.

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