Tecopa Pupfish
The Tecopa pupfish lived in waters with temperatures that many other fish could not live in. When humans discovered the natural habitat of these fish – the Tecopa Hot Springs in California – they constructed bathhouses in order to take advantage of the natural hot springs there. The diversion of waters and human tampering led these fish to full extinction in 1979.
Tecopa Pupfish
Steller’s Sea Cow
It took only 27 years after George Steller discovered this sea creature before it was hunted to extinction. The reason that humans found it so easy to hunt is probably because the aniimal found difficulty submerging its huge body beneath the surface of the water which made it vulnerable.
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Steller’s Sea Cow
