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Extinct Animals API

Extinct Animals API — This API provides information about animals that became…

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Extinct Animals API exposes this API provides information about animals that became extinct in the last 11,650 years, known as the Holocene extinction. It gathers data from Wikipedia and individual animal pages, allowing users to retrieve information about these extinct species, including their names and last recorded sightings. We verified a keyless GET endpoint returning JSON (Animals). Check the provider docs for rate limits and terms before production use.

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Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://extinct-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/animal/

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": [
    {
      "binomialName": "Dysmorodrepanis munroi",
      "commonName": "Lānaʻi hookbill",
      "location": "Lanai, Hawaii, United States",
      "wikiLink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C4%81na%CA%BBi_hookbill",
      "lastRecord": "1918",
      "imageSrc": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Dysmorodrepanis.svg/220px-Dysmorodrepanis.svg.png",
      "shortDesc": "The Lānaʻi hookbill (Dysmorodrepanis munroi) is an extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper. It was endemic to the island of Lānaʻi in Hawaiʻi, and was last seen in the southwestern part of the island. George C. Munro collected the only known specimen of this species in 1913, which is housed in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and saw the species only twice more, once in 1916 and for a final time in 1918. No other sightings have been reported. They inhabited montane dry forests dominated by ʻakoko (Euphorbia species) and ōpuhe (Urera glabra). The Lānaʻi hookbill was  monotypic within the genus Dysmorodrepanis and had no known subspecies. Its closest relative is believed to be the ʻōʻū, and some early authors suggested that the Lānaʻi hookbill was merely a deformed ʻōʻū. The Lānaʻi hookbill was a plump, medium-sized bird with greenish olive upperparts and pale whitish yellow underparts. It also had a yellow or white superciliary line and a white chin and throat. The wings also had a distinctive and conspicuous white wing patch. The hookbill's distinguishing characteristic was its heavy, parrotlike bill, which had the mandibles hooking sharply towards each other, leaving a gap between them when the beak was closed."
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://extinct-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/animal/"
const res = await fetch("https://extinct-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/animal/");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://extinct-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/animal/")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /api/v1/animal/ awaits first probe
GET/api/v1/animal/PROBED

Extinct Animals API — This API provides information about animals that became…

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/api/v1/animal/:number

:Number — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

Extinct Animals API: common questions

Is Extinct Animals API free to use?

Yes — Extinct Animals API is a free animals API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Extinct Animals API need an API key?

No — Extinct Animals API needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Extinct Animals API from the browser?

Yes — Extinct Animals API returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Extinct Animals API up right now?

Extinct Animals API is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.