Plenty of poets wrote them, but the most famous of all is John Milton's  Lycidas . Like all typical pastoral elegies, Milton mourns the loss of his best bud (who died in a shipwreck). But he also compares him to a shepherd and describes the ways in which nature mourns his loss, too.
The Banff longnose dace, a small minnow, was recently declared extinct. It failed to compete with the guppies, swordtails, sailfin mollies and other tropical fish that had been released in the warm marsh below the famous hot springs by tourists and national park officials.
Some species of animals, such as the dino â¦ saurs, are still being argued over by scientists on how the became extinct. But, a few years ago, An animal that was thought to be extinct was caught off of a Japanese ocean! It as the goblin shark.It was supposed to have died out millions of years ago, but its alive.ome prehistoric species that have become extinct due to human actions are the Dodo, they all lived on one island, and humans used them for lamp oil and new animals like dogs and cats were introduced. We're not sure if the mammoth died because of humans.