The Pyrenean ibex was a subspecies of the Spanish ibex and it is now extinct.
Once, he was widespread in the French Pyrenees, in the Basque Country, in Navarra and in northern Catalonia.
In 1900 there were about 100 specimens left but already in 1910 there were only 40 left. The last specimen was found dead on January 6, 2006 with its neck broken because of the fall of a tree.
The scientists wanted to clone it but there wasn't male DNA, so they are now waiting for the technology to study a way to replace the X chromosome of the female cell with a Y chromosome of another subspecies.
CAPRA PYRENAICA LUSITANICA
The Portuguese ibex populated Portugal, Galicia, the Asturias and the Cantabrian Mountains.
In 1800 it was still quite numerous but it soon suffered a meltdown because the local populations enormously hunted it in each period of the year because of its meat, horns, skin (with which they made clothes) and bezoars (formations of foreign bodies in the stomach) used to defend against "any poison".
The last female specimen was sighted in 1892.
(Thanks to Lorenzo S. for helping me writing this post)
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