There’s a word for the final remaining member of a species: endling. In this episode of The List Show, host and Mental Floss Editor-in-Chief Erin McCarthy talks about a few endlings. There are so many animals that have gone extinct through the ages that we’re choosing to focus just on creatures that went extinct relatively recently: from 1800 onward. So even though we’ll be talking about animals that went the way of the dodo, we won’t be talking about the dodo itself, which, incidentally, went extinct in the late 17th century. Let’s get started.