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* ''WebVideo/OOTheLastVoiceOfKauai'', a short animated movie depicting the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird.
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* The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recorded the [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU song]] of the last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauaʻi_ʻōʻō Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird]] before his death in 1987. The song was from a male, singing a mating call to a female that sadly, would never come. Most tragically, the recorded song was only ''half'' of the mating call: Kauaʻi ʻōʻōs mated for life and sang a duet-- the conspicuous, empty pauses in the last recording were supposed to be where the female would chime in.

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* The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recorded the [[https://m.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU song]] of the last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauaʻi_ʻōʻō Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird]] before his death in 1987. The song was from a male, singing a mating call to a female that sadly, would never come. Most tragically, the recorded song was only ''half'' of the mating call: Kauaʻi ʻōʻōs mated for life and sang a duet-- the conspicuous, empty pauses in the last recording were supposed to be where the female would chime in.
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** The burrowing burdle is the last of the burdles during the Late Ocean Age into the early Late Ultimocene, as their aquatic relatives were killed off by the daydreamers.
** The scorplear is the last of the antlear lineage (the lineage to which the aforementioned woodcrafters belonged) by the Late Ocean Age, with the ice age having killed off the trees their more specialist relatives needed to survive. It's survived by becoming omnivorous but is far less intelligent than the antlears that came before it. By the Hothouse Age, they've become the last of the circuagodonts period, but struggle to survive for millions of years due to being unable to tolerate wetter conditions and the diseases they bring, with the survivors holding out in Serinarcta's few higher and cooler areas.


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** Blaze is the last of the widemind woolly wumpos when she's introduced, and when she dies no others are born because the species is among the first casualties of the coal seam fire soon afterwards, either burning to death or dying from smoke inhalation or toxic fumes.
** The sea bamboo is the last bamboo group on Serina, and with its extinction at the end of the Ocean Age, bamboo has the dubious honor of being the first of the seeded organisms to go completely extinct.
** The Late Ultimocene has several families reduced to a single surviving species. The nimicorns are the only thorngrazers to survive into the era after their razorback cousins perish in the coal fire. Afterwards the savage gravediggers are the only remaining gravediggers after their thalassic cousins are transported away and the icefishers die when the sea ice they depended on melts. Finally, the duckbilled sealumps are the only members of the sealumps to survive since they were the only species that could still walk on land and escape the dying oceans, eventually settling on Serinaustra.
** The hiddenwood is the last species of ant tree left by the early Late Ultimocene after the ice age due to most of the plant growing underground. With the increased warmth and wetness of the Late Ultimocene and the extinction of the more destructive razorback thorngrazer, it has seen a major resurgence. It's also the last of the sunflower tree lineage found on Serinarcta, with its cactaiga cousin being among the victims of the increased temperatures.
** The rambleroot is the last survivor of a lineage of smaller understory trees descended from clovers in the early Late Ultimocene, having survived by mostly growing underground like the hiddenwood has. Following the warming caused by the coal seam fire and the disappearance of the cold winds that would blow smaller plants down, they start growing to knee height, flower and fruit, and spread to Serinaustra via bird droppings.
** "As Worlds Break Apart and Join Together" details the story of the last steppestalker, the direct descendant of the shadowstalker (differentiated only by its lighter coloration compared to its ancestor), and the largest of the tribbats on Serina 1,500 years post-coal seam fire. Having made it to a small island when the rampant global warming and subsequent glacier melting during the aftermath of the Serinarctan coal seam fire caused most of the Meridian Islands to sink beneath the waves, he manages to adapt to hunting fish in the shallows and serves as apex predator over the other species marooned there with him for over twenty-one years. However, eventually the refuge shrinks down to just some rocks as the remaining prey either rafts away or dies, until finally, weakened by drinking seawater as the waves batter him, one manages to knock him into the sea and he drowns.
** Eve is the last of the reapers, a subspecies of the aukvulture that managed to achieve sapience, but went extinct due to inbreeding.
** The pgymy pretenguin is the only pretenguin species to survive the Great Thaw, having moved to Serinarcta with the sinking of the Meridian Islands.
** The surf scooter survives the Great Thaw that extincts the other dolfinches by being a semi-aquatic species that can access either the Serinarctan marshes or the defrosting shores of Serinaustra, places where the larger species cannot go as the ocean food chain collapses.
** The skuorc is the only squotter that survives the Great Thaw because it's more terrestrial than their cousins.
** The culminant crown is the last of the crown lineage of aukvultures, and is slowly going extinct due to sexual selection giving males bony crests that are too large for them to fly with.
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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In "Red's Sea Monster", Red, while hanging out by herself at a lily pond, sees a large purple monster rising out of it. He explains that he's the last of the Lily Creatures and that his existence must be kept secret so that he can live in the pond in peace, without being disturbed by the other Fraggles' noise. Red promises to keep him secret, and he tells her that she may come back and visit, as she is his friend.
-->'''Lily Creature:''' Come when the lilies are in bloom. ''[He starts to sink back into the pond.]'' I really did like your braids.
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* The Sea Hag, ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'''s arch nemesis, is the last witch on Earth.

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* The Sea Hag, ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'''s arch nemesis, is the last witch on Earth. We find out years later that this is because the other witches exiled themselves to a pocket dimension to hide ''from'' The Sea Hag.
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** The scissorjaw is the last of the circuagodogs in the Late Ocean Age, the others having been outcompeted by other, smarter predators such as the sawjaws who are better adapted to prey on the thorngrazers that have become Serina's most common terrestrial herbivore, and their prey either going extinct or becoming too smart to hunt. The solitary nature of most circuagodog species also serves to work against them. Eventually, the trunkos get the idea to start systematically exterminating their predators, with the circuagodogs being too unintelligent to mount an effective enough defense, and the remainder either starve to death or meet their end at the clubs of the trunkos. [[https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/the-ultimocene-250-million-years/scissortooth-circuagodog Circuagodog Gone]] describes the last moments of the very last circuagodog, half-dead from starvation, as it calmly accepts its death at the hands - well, trunk - of a creature its kind once hunted.

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** The scissorjaw is the last of the circuagodogs in the Late Ocean Age, the others having been outcompeted by other, smarter predators such as the sawjaws who are better adapted to prey on the thorngrazers that have become Serina's most common terrestrial herbivore, omnivore, and their prey either going extinct or becoming too smart to hunt. The solitary nature of most circuagodog species also serves to work against them. Eventually, the trunkos get the idea to start systematically exterminating their predators, with the circuagodogs being too unintelligent to mount an effective enough defense, and the remainder either starve to death or meet their end at the clubs of the trunkos. [[https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/the-ultimocene-250-million-years/scissortooth-circuagodog Circuagodog Gone]] describes the last moments of the very last circuagodog, half-dead from starvation, as it calmly accepts its death at the hands - well, trunk - of a creature its kind once hunted.
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* In ''VisualNovel/CafeEnchante'', Dromi is the last of the surviving werecats. By the end of Ignis's route, [[spoiler: Ignis is also the last of the firewolves.]]
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* With the untimely passings of Wrestling/LukeHarper in 2020 and Wrestling/BrayWyatt in 2023, Wrestling/ErickRowan is the last surviving founding member of Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.

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* With the untimely passings of Wrestling/LukeHarper in 2020 and Wrestling/BrayWyatt in 2023, Wrestling/ErickRowan is the last surviving founding member of Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.[[note]] Wrestling/BraunStrowman, Wrestling/DanielBryan, and Wrestling/RandyOrton are also surviving members, but they joined the group at later points in time[[/note]]
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* With the untimely passings of Wrestling/LukeHarper in 2020 and Wrestling/BrayWyatt in 2023, Wrestling/ErickRowan is the last surviving founding member of Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.
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->''"You know the problem with being the last of anything; by and by there be none left at all."''
-->-- '''Hector Barbossa''', ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''

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->''"You know ->''"We were only an egg, hearing Mother cry in our dreams. A tone from space hushed one voice after another. It forced the problem singers to resonate with being the its own sour yellow note. Then we awoke in this place. The last echo of anything; by and by there be none left at all.those who came out from the Singing Planet. The sky is silent."''
-->-- '''Hector Barbossa''', ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''
'''Rachni Queen''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''
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* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'':''Blog/HamstersParadise'':
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* The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recorded the [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU song]] of the last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauaʻi_ʻōʻō Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird]] before its death in 1987. The song was from a male, singing a mating call to female that sadly, would never come. Most tragically, the recorded song was only ''half'' of the mating call: Kauaʻi ʻōʻōs mated for life and sang a duet-- the conspicuous, empty pauses in the last recording were supposed to be where the female would chime in.

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* The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recorded the [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU song]] of the last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauaʻi_ʻōʻō Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird]] before its his death in 1987. The song was from a male, singing a mating call to a female that sadly, would never come. Most tragically, the recorded song was only ''half'' of the mating call: Kauaʻi ʻōʻōs mated for life and sang a duet-- the conspicuous, empty pauses in the last recording were supposed to be where the female would chime in.
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* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'': This turns up several times in the setting, as the dwindling and extinction of species and lineages is a recurring theme.

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* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'': ''Website/{{Serina}}'': This turns up several times in the setting, as the dwindling and extinction of species and lineages is a recurring theme.theme:

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