10 Animals That Were Hunted To Extinction

Wikipedia Tasmania Tigers were hunted by humans to extinction

The last known Tasmanian Tiger, a dog-looking creature with a striped body, died in an Australian zoo in 1936.

Although a long-held theory suggested that an unknown disease was partly to blame for the the animal's demise, a new study, published online on Thursday, Jan. 31, in the Journal of Animal Ecology, found that humans alone were responsible for the marsupial's extinction.

Sadly, the Tasmanian Tiger is just one animal in a long list of species that have been wiped out directly or almost directly by the hands of humans.

Animals face many natural threats, including changing temperatures, predators, and unexpected disasters. But no external stresses have proved more destructive to the survival of other living things than man.