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How many species of mammals that lived on major continents (i.e., excluding Australia) have gone extinct since 1500 AD?

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A 2011 paper published in the journal Diversity and Distributions examining the "actual historical record of extinctions" found that a total of 3 mammals that lived on major continents have gone extinct since the year 1500.

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