The Late, Great Endlings: Stories of the Last Survivors
You know about the dodo bird great auk and dinosaur lost creatures that once shared our world so many years before But something that you may not know in each and every case of a disappearing species extinction had a face
Behold the late great endlings last creatures of their sort Survivors of millennia till humans cut them short The endling is a special beast though tragic to be sure For once the endling breathes its last its species is no more Endling the last known survivor of a species or subspecies The word was coined in the mid 1990s by Dr. Robert Webster a physician from Jasper Georgia Over the past 500 years thousands of species of birds plants and animals have become extinct Most endlings die quietly and anonymously in the wild But in some rare cases humans were there to witness their final days These reluctant ambassadors were given names and have gone on to become symbols of their tragic species Ben GEORGE
