Quagga

A half-striped zebra that vanished in the 1880s/Dinosaurs & Extinct Animals

The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) was a subspecies of the plains zebra distinguished by having stripes only on the front half of its body, fading to a plain brown rear. It stood about 1.3 meters at the shoulder and weighed roughly 300 kg. Native to South Africa, it was hunted to extinction by settlers who wanted its grazing land for livestock. The last known individual died at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam on August 12, 1883. It was the first extinct animal to have its DNA analyzed.