Animals That Might Go Extinct In 2025. It can happen to an entire species, meaning that all species are lost (including both those that are wild and in captivity). The web page estimates that between 200 and 100,000 species are becoming extinct every year, based on different assumptions about the number of species on earth.

See photos, sources, and criteria for choosing these extinct. By sequencing the genomes of 20 animals across about three generations, researchers found their genes to be surprisingly free of mutations that would threaten the.