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11[[caption-width-right:339: Oh, where did the dinosaurs go?\
12They were all here not long ago.\
13This burden that we used to share\
14Has now become mine to bear.\
15Goodbye forever, friends of yore,\
16For I am the last of the dinosaurs.]]
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18->''"We were only an egg, hearing Mother cry in our dreams. A tone from space hushed one voice after another. It forced the singers to resonate with its own sour yellow note. Then we awoke in this place. The last echo of those who came out from the Singing Planet. The sky is silent."''
19-->-- '''Rachni Queen''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''
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21A character who is a species unto themself, the SoleSurvivor of some [[DepopulationBomb calamity]] that has [[EverybodysDeadDave wiped out their entire civilization]]. If this civilization used to be important in the power balance between civilizations that still remain, it's now considered [[TheMissingFaction missing]].
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23This might mean that they're the last survivor of a particular society or secret order, but for full effect they are actually the last of an entire civilization, or even biological species.
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25Such a character is liable to manifest some profound SurvivorGuilt, and the prospect of avenging their kind may develop into an obsession that acts as an AchillesHeel. It will also provide an excuse for them to be substantially different (read: "better") in skill, abilities, or morality than the rest of the characters. However, the writers still need to be careful as to how they construct this SurvivorGuilt: owing to AngstDissonance, even something as traumatic as this can still degenerate into {{Wangst}} if the character seems determined not to get over it and eventually move on, or if the character's pain is written in an unconvincing fashion.
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27Will often manifest qualities of the WarriorPoet or the Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand.
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29Since this kind of loneliness is the sort of thing that could easily drive you mad, evil versions are about as common as good ones, particularly of the StrawNihilist strain. In general, being the last of one's kind is a polarizing experience: the only folks who tend to survive the death of their species are either the very best examples, or the very worst. The evil version will often carry a thematic notion that their very existence is an affront to the natural order, as they "ought" to have died with the rest of their kind, and it's rather rude of them to keep hanging on to life well past their time. Some really evil versions might even be [[GenocideFromTheInside responsible for the deaths of the rest of their race]] in a way (see Lobo below), as may TheAtoner every once in a blue moon (see Tetrax, further below). Not-quite-as-evil versions may have survived because of some evil act such as cowardice, [[LesCollaborateurs betraying their race to the enemy]], being exiled for crimes, or [[ImmortalityImmorality morally questionable ways of prolonging their lives]]. In either case, if it was an engineered [[GenocideBackfire genocide, it just backfired]]. Or, the "last of his kind" character could be evil just because the "kind" itself is AlwaysChaoticEvil.
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31Very often, at least for the heroic sort, it will eventually be revealed that ThereIsAnother.
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33It is fairly uncommon for such a character to be ''the'' lead character, even if they are an important member of the regular cast. Perhaps that level of isolation is just too much for the audience to really wrap their minds around -- with most characters who are cut off from their own kind, there is at least the ''prospect'' of an eventual reunion. This character lacks even ''that'' prospect. However, a common {{A|nAesop}}esop (for the heroic ones at least) they learn is that, even if their race is gone, they aren't truly alone, having people with them who still love and care for them.
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35Compare EndOfAnAge, FlingALightIntoTheFuture, HumanitysWake, UniquenessValue, GenocideSurvivor, and LivingRelic. GenocideBackfire and GenocideFromTheInside can both cause this trope. EndangeredSpecies and DyingRace are not as extreme versions, although they may lead to this eventually. Sometimes paired with TheAloner for truly horrifying angst. Occasionally PlayedForDrama or PlayedForLaughs with OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace. Occasionally the Last Of His Kind is of a previously extant BarbarianTribe of some kind. If ThereIsAnother, see AdamAndEvePlot. TheCollector likely wants to put him in their FantasticNatureReserve.
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37If there was only ''ever'' one member of a species, see SingleSpecimenSpecies. Not to be confused with AKindOfOne.
38Note that the very last of any species is called an endling.
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40Contrast with MonsterProgenitor and TheChosenMany. Compare RacialRemnant. Overlaps with SingleSpecimenSpecies. If this is taking place in an AfterTheEnd setting or such, don't be surprised if [[TheLastManHeardAKnock The Last Man Hears a Knock]].
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42'''Spoilers Ahoy!'''
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44When adding RealLife examples, please only list the last recorded individuals of non-human organisms.
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47!!Example subpages:
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49[[index]]
50* LastOfHisKind/AnimeAndManga
51* LastOfHisKind/ComicBooks
52* LastOfHisKind/FanWorks
53* {{LastOfHisKind/Film}}
54* LastOfHisKind/{{Literature}}
55* LastOfHisKind/LiveActionTV
56* LastOfHisKind/VideoGames
57* LastOfHisKind/{{Webcomics}}
58* LastOfHisKind/WesternAnimation
59[[/index]]
60
61!!Other examples:
62[[foldercontrol]]
63
64[[folder:Art]]
65* ''Art/BeastFables'': [[https://www.deviantart.com/nazrigar/art/Mermay-2023-The-Last-of-the-Primevals-964639981 Kosumi and 'Awha'y]] were the last merfolk of their respective kinds -- a sabretooth salmon and a ''Semirostrum'' porpoise, respectively. Their legacy was passing down myths of the Primeval Age so it will always be remembered.
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68[[folder:Comic Strips]]
69* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'': Rosebud is the last remaining basselope, a crossbreed of [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction a basset hound and an antelope]]. (The others died out due to high blood pressure from clogged arteries because they were fond of Pop Tarts and ate them with too much butter.) In a later storyline, she and Hodge Podge sire a litter of young, but seeing as Hodge is a jackrabbit (which is clearly defying the laws of nature again), the young are referred to as "jack-basselopes" leaving Rosebud still the only true basselope.
70* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': A couple of strips play with this: a dinosaur stands alone among a bunch of caves all labelled "extinct" ("Suddenly Bobby felt very alone") while Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans fruitlessly calls out for his fellow tribesmen. ("OK fellas, joke's over!")
71* 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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74[[folder:Game Books]]
75* ''Literature/LoneWolf'': The titular character is the last surviving Kai Lord after the [[BigBad Darklords]] massacred the rest of the order at their monastery. He would later repay the favour through the genocide of the Darklords and rebuilding the Kai Order to the point where it has five [[OneManArmy Grand Masters]]. Becoming the first [[PhysicalGod Kai Supreme Master]] is just a nice bonus.
76[[/folder]]
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78[[folder:Music]]
79* "Last Man On Earth" by Mike Candys is a song about the last man who decides to leave earth in a spaceship to start a new life.
80* "Last of My Kind" by Music/AliceInChains
81* "The last Unicorn" By America.
82--> When the last eagle flies
83--> Over the last crumbling mountain
84--> And the last lion roars
85--> At the last dusty fountain
86--> In the shadow of the forest
87--> Though she may be old and worn
88--> They will stare unbelieving
89--> At the Last Unicorn
90* "Sole Survivor" by Music/BlueOysterCult is about the sole surviving human on earth after an [[{{UnspecifiedApocalypse}} unspecified apocalyptic event]].
91--> There walked a lonely man,
92--> Silent, mute, the only man
93--> Not knowing how, not knowing why
94--> Was he the sole survivor
95* "The Last of Our Kind", Rykka's song for Switzerland in the 2016 edition of the Series/EurovisionSongContest.
96* "Last of the Steampowered Trains" by Music/TheKinks from Music/TheKinksAreTheVillageGreenPreservationSociety:
97--> "I'm the last of the good old renegades.\
98All my friends are all middle class and grey,\
99But I live in a museum, so I'm okay.\
100I'm the last of the good old fashioned steam-powered trains.\
101Like the last of the good ol' choo-choo trains,\
102Huff and puff 'till I blow this world away,\
103And I'm gonna keep on rollin' till my dying day."
104* "Deuteronomy 2:10" by Music/TheMountainGoats, is about the Last Tasmanian Tiger, the Last Dodo, and the Last Golden Toad.
105-->''No brothers left, and there'll be no more after me.''
106* "The Last Leviathan" by The Music/FishermansFriends is about The Last Whale.
107--> Last night I heard the cry. of my last companion.
108--> Then came a blast from a harpoon gun,
109--> and I swam alone.
110* ''Music/NautilusPompilius'': The main character of the song "The Last Human on Earth" is the one. He is surrounded by some foes, but that foes are, apperantly, not humans (either literally — or they just so cruel they can't be called "humans" anymore).
111* "Viimeinen Mammutti" by {{Music/Hevisaurus}}. The title translates to "The Last Mammoth," and the lyrics heavily imply that the titular mammoth is going to sleep for the last time and looking forward to being with the other mammoths again.
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114[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
115* [[Wrestling/VonErichFamily Kevin Von Erich]]: He became the last of the Von Erich brothers in the early 90s, after five of the six Von Erich brothers died young.
116* Memphis was the last of the traditional wrestling territories to still function as an independent entity, unaffiliated with Wrestling/{{WWE}} or Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Financial woes and a lack of marketable talent caused the USWA (a merger of Wrestling/JerryLawler and Jerry Jarrett's CWA and Fritz Von Erich's WCCW) to fold in 1997. USWA's successor, Memphis Championship Wrestling, was conceived as a WWE developmental territory, like Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). The last pre-Wrestling/MondayNightWars territory to be established was Wrestling/JimCornette's Wrestling/{{SMW}} in 1991.
117* Wrestling/RicFlair was the last World Champion of the classic NWA territory system. When Flair first won the belt in 1981, his schedule was set by a national Board of Directors who split his time among several regional promotions, including overseas trips to promotions in Japan, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. This was the business model that professional wrestling had followed since 1948. During Flair's time as champion, that system broke down, and by the time Flair left that title behind in 1991, he was an exclusive employee of Wrestling/{{WCW}}.
118* Wrestling/TheUndertaker picked up the nickname "The Last Outlaw"[[note]]A nickname since adopted by Wrestling/JeffJarrett, for unrelated reasons[[/note]] during a feud with Wrestling/TripleH and later promos played up his status as one of the last remnants of the 1980s era high-concept comic-book-style [[TheGimmick gimmicks]]. (Really, the only other one is his storyline half-brother Wrestling/{{Kane}}.) If you want to get technical, it's really Kane who's left from that era, because 'Taker can no longer wrestle on a regular basis, so much so that his appearances in recent years have only been during the lead-up to ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'' and the actual pay-per-view itself.
119* In 1997, Wrestling/BretHart, shortly after his FaceHeelTurn at Wrestling/WrestleMania 13, reformed the Hart Foundation as an Anti-American stable, reuniting with Jim Neidhart, and recruiting Wrestling/OwenHart, [[Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith The British Bulldog]] and Wrestling/BrianPillman in the process. Now, Bret is the only surviving member, as Jim passed away in August 2018.
120* With the departure of Wrestling/JamesStorm in 2015, Wrestling/{{Abyss}} is the last wrestler in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling to have appeared in the company's very first broadcast. And of the TNA Originals themselves, only he, Wrestling/BobbyRoode, and Eric Young remain. [[http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/0319/608758/tna-issues-statement-on-former-world-heavyweight-champions/ As of March 2016,]] it's just Abyss.
121* Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa was the longest lasting of the Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} originals, talking about the [[TournamentArc Heart Of SHIMMER tournament]] and how it described her, who had seen every woman who had failed in the company. However after giving this speech [[Wrestling/MercedesMartinez another original]] would return on the next volume.
122* Crossed with FourIsDeath: Wrestling/{{Taz|z}} was the fourth and last wrestler (after Johnny Hot Body, Wrestling/{{Sabu}} and Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck) to hold [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-h.html the NWA ECW/ECW World Heavyweight Title]], the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-tv.html NWA ECW/ECW World Television Title]] and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html NWA ECW/ECW World Tag Team Titles]] during the promotion's 1992-2001 existence.
123* As pointed out by the book ''The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams'', Wrestling/TheNastyBoys were the last team from the territorial system to make it to the national level.
124* Wrestling/TheBarbarian and Dick Slater were the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-t.html WCW United States Tag Team Champions]].
125* [[Wrestling/TerriPoch Terri Power (WWE's Tori)]] was the last [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=1114 LPWA Champion]], winning it in the main event of ''LPWA Super Ladies Showdown'', which was their lone PPV and their final event ever.
126* [[Wrestling/BillDeMott "The Laughing Man" Hugh Morrus]] was the last member of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom who was introduced in a vignette in the Dungeon itself.
127* Wrestling/RecklessYouth won the GLW (Great Lakes Wrestling) Heavyweight Title in the final match of the promotion's final show.
128* [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]] is the last female ECW alumnus still active in the business, currently performing for Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.
129* 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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132[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
133* ''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.
134-->'''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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137[[folder:Radio]]
138* The ''Radio/AlienWorlds'' episode "A Question of Conscience" has the Starlab crew encounter an alien who is the sole survivor of his race seeking asylum from the enemy soldiers that eradicated his kind.
139* The third series of ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'', ''The World in Peril'', features [[spoiler: the last Martian]].
140[[/folder]]
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142[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
143* They pop up from time to time in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', almost exclusively with the Legendary supertype. For example, Thrun was the sole troll to survive the first Mirrodin block (and God knows how close any other species on Mirrodin has come to it with the Phyrexian takeover), while Momir Vig on Ravnica was supposedly the last of his particular subset of elves (and given that he was also a megalomaniac who unleashed a BlobMonster on the world ForScience it's not like anyone particularly missed them). Subverted with Niv-Mizzet, though; he was supposedly the last dragon on Ravnica, but it turns out that there are actually a bunch of dragons on Ravnica and [[AwesomeEgo Niv-Mizzet]] just doesn't consider them worthy of the title because they're kind of stupid.
144** Played for drama with Samut. Samut is the last refugee of Nactamun, the only inhabited city on the desert plane of [[AncientEgypt Amonkhet]]. Her entire life -- as well as the lives of everyone on Amonkhet -- was to succeed at the Trials, an endless series of challenges both competitive and cooperative reminiscent of ''Literature/TheHungerGames.'' Then God-Pharoah [[BigBad Nicol Bolas]] revealed that the purpose of the Trials was to create an undead army, which was now complete, rendering Amonkhet obsolete...so he destroyed the magic keeping Nactamun from turning to desert and left with his army. Only Samut escaped, but was then forced to battle with said undead army on Ravnica. Some cards note that Samut recognized faces among those of the Dreadhorde.
145* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'': Sean Gallagher, the Wolfbane warleader, is the last living member of the Gallagher family. The Gallagher home was attacked by [[EldritchAbomination the Dark Legion]] during a clan meet, and Sean was the only member of the Chief family not present.
146* Deadline, a villain from ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', became the last of his kind during a catastrophe on his home planet. When he was approached by the being known as the Terminarch, he accepted her offer of immortality to preserve his race's memory.
147** By extension, the Endlings, the group Deadline became part of, also have the same backstory: The last of their kind given immortality.
148** Haka is also this, at least in the far distant future of [[AfterTheEnd The Final Wasteland]], where he is the last human. He spends most of his time collecting books and other knowledge he can find.
149* ''{{TabletopGame/Shadowrun}}'': One of Harlequin's aliases is "Last Knight of the Crying Spire".
150* Parodied in ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}}: the Cartoon RPG''. The Foogle Bird from the sample adventure "I Foogled You!" is the last of its kind... but there are many kinds of Foogle Bird, all the last of their kind, and all [[ThePrankster obnoxious and mischievous]].
151* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', Titus Germanicus' letters in ''Chronicles of the Black Labyrinth'' describe Brennus, the last White Howler chieftain. After his warriors fell in battle, he was probably the last White Howler left in Caledonia. Black Spiral Dancers later captured and beheaded him.
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154[[folder:Theatre]]
155* By the third act of the play ''Theatre/{{RUR}}'' (a.k.a. Rossum's Universal Robots), the only human left is Alquist who was the Clerk of the Works at the factory and was spared during the robot uprising because he "works with his hands like the robots".
156* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'': During "Small Council", Daenerys is called "the last dragon", the dragon referring to her family sigil. Daenerys's brother Viserys is dead by the time she's first seen onstage, and the two of them were the last known survivors of their family at the beginning of the original story.
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159[[folder:Visual Novels]]
160* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', [[BigBad Astaroth]] exterminates the population of the planet Gal. Gargouille is left the only survivor, and she vows to avenge her people by killing Astaroth.
161* In ''VisualNovel/OlympiaSoiree'', The main character, Olympia, is the last remaining member of the White clan and the plot revolves around her finding a partner to continue the lineage.
162* 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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165[[folder:Web Animation]]
166* ''WebAnimation/{{Brackenwood}}'': Bitey is the last of a race of swift, satyr-like creatures known as the Dashkin.
167* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[BigBad Salem]] ([[spoiler:and if you count reincarnation, Ozpin and Oscar]]) is revealed to be the last of [[spoiler:the original humans, who were wiped out by the God of Darkness for their attempted RageAgainstTheHeavens, which Salem instigated. The second and current humanity came about through evolution (The first humanity was created by the Gods)]].
168* In ''WebAnimation/TrueTail'', Doh-Li the priestess is the last Kirin alive, since then, her race has been known as a lost ancient species and she wants to avenge her race.
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171[[folder:Web Original]]
172* ''WebOriginal/BosunsJournal'': The entry on the thinking buildings is narrated shortly after the death of the last living specimen of their kind, who was by that point also the last sapient human on the ''Nebukadnezar''. Their death marks the end of the Broken Age and the beginning of the Wild Age, a period of tens of millions of years over which the Bosun AI will be the last mind left on a ship of wild animals.
173* ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'': For the longest time, [[TheEngineer Daven]] is seen as the last surviving member of the [[ProudScholarRace Lefein]] race... until he finds out that in fact ThereIsAnother.
174* ''Blog/HamstersParadise'':
175** When the Glaciocene begins, it is marked by harsh ice ages the whittle many families down to a single surviving species such as the mison, seavers, leviahams, girats and boingos. However, [[InvertedTrope these species end up becoming the first of entirely new familes]].
176** [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/666679431727824896/the-middle-glaciocene-115-million-years-3000 Alone Again, Naturally: An Unlikely Friendship]] goes over the OddFriendship of Last Bloom, the last of the splinsters, a peaceful species of sapient trunked omnivores and Boulder, the last thorhorn, an intelligent and empathetic ox-like creatures after both of their species were destroyed by the Pyromaniacs, a fire obsessed culture of the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil sadistic]] harmster species.
177** [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/669109407703072768/the-late-glaciocene-115-million-years-5000 Last Stand: Final Stronghold of the Rockcookers]] goes over the last group of surviving Rockcooker Harmsters holed up in a fortress against the hordes of harmsters that have been infected by a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie-like transmissible cancer]] before they eventually [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled burn themselves to death to be spared the same fate]] when the infection finds its way inside the fortress.
178** The derelict seaver, as the name suggests, is the only species of the whale-like seavers to survive the reign of the Harmsters. It was able to survive by virtue of being both small and by inhabiting remote arctic waters that the Harmsters had difficulty reaching. It still remained small even after the Harmsters died out due to the warmer climate of the Temperocene being less conducive for plankton growth and competition with hamatees.
179** [[spoiler: In the original sketches, the very last species on the planet long after all other life has perished are the omegahams, small rodents closely resembling the original founding hamsters]].
180* ''Website/TheOnion'': The [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict Israeli-Palestinian conflict]] will eventually be whittled down to one man on each side [[http://youtu.be/iKC21wDarBo?t=3m13s by the year 2137]].
181* ''Website/{{Serina}}'': This turns up several times in the setting, as the dwindling and extinction of species and lineages is a recurring theme:
182** One of the entries detailing the beginning of the closing stages of the Ultimocene describes [[https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/the-ultimocene-250-million-years/the-last-stormsonor the last stormsonor]], the last living specimen of a species of immense birds that slowly went extinct as the growing ice age covered their feeding grounds in ice and caused their egg-like pupal sacs to freeze to death before they could hatch. The last one was born in a freak warm year, from a clutch deposited by an ancient hen who died after laying, and was the only one to hatch successfully. She never met another member of her kind, and instead imprinted on a flock of a much smaller related species with which she spent the rest of her life.
183** One entry aptly titled [[spoiler:[[https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/the-ultimocene-250-million-years/the-last-woodcrafter-dawn-of-a-new-era The Last Woodcrafter]] goes over the extinction of the woodcrafter people. When the planet becomes too cold for the trees the woodcrafters depended on to survive, they become malnourished and are unable to reproduce as a result. The socialized gravediggers they lived with are eventually forced to migrate to the coast to stay alive while some woodcrafters chose to stay and die in their old forest home while others chose to leave with the gravediggers, these ones discover that they can feed on the coastal seaweed and return to health but there were far too few of them at that point and they were all past their reproductive age so they decide to spend their last days helping and guiding the gravediggers. The last woodcrafter is an elderly female named [[MeaningfulName Ember]] who peacefully passes on surrounded by the Gravediggers her kind came to view as their children]].
184** [[https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/the-ultimocene-250-million-years/rivals Rivals]] ends with a description of the last living sea rex, a massive marine predator, after his species was gradually whittled down by the collapse of the open-ocean food chains and a bitter conflict with the pelagan daydreamers over what little prey remained in the shrinking ice age seas. Ultimately, the last great leviathan is left to wander the oceans for nearly a century after the death of the last female specimen and for forty years after the death of the second-last male, his mind just complex enough to be puzzled at why his mating calls are never answered, but not enough to understand his species' fate.
185** The pelagic daydreamers are gradually done in when the shrinking oceans kill off all the animals that could sustain them. The last members of their species were too old to reproduce and believed themselves to be the very last of the daydreamers until the mixed gravedigger-daydreamer civilization from the shallows find them, allowing their people to symbolically live on the stories and histories they tell them.
186** 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.
187** 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.
188** 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 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.
189** 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.
190** 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.
191** 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.
192** 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.
193** 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.
194** "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.
195** Eve is the last of the reapers, a subspecies of the aukvulture that managed to achieve sapience, but went extinct due to inbreeding.
196** The pgymy pretenguin is the only pretenguin species to survive the Great Thaw, having moved to Serinarcta with the sinking of the Meridian Islands.
197** 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.
198** The skuorc is the only squotter that survives the Great Thaw because it's more terrestrial than their cousins.
199** 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.
200* In WebOriginal/{{Centennials}}, Neve is said to be the last Pionin, a species that is Half-Man, Half-frog and Neve is said to spend a lot of her time preserving her species' lost past. However, [[spoiler: it is later revealed that more Pionin survived in the Nightlands]]
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204* ''WebVideo/TheBritishRailwayStories'': At the end of Episode 15, Day Of The Deltic, [[spoiler:Stephen]] announces that he's the last [[spoiler:[=LNER=] Class B12]] in the world because of the Modernization Plan.
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208* The last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Pigeon Passenger Pigeon]], Martha, died in 1914 at Cincinnati Zoo after outliving her two male companions as a very honored, but alone, bird.
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210** The last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_parakeet Carolina Parakeet]], Incas, died four years later at the Cincinnati Zoo, coincidentally in the same cage Martha lived in.
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212* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_George Lonesome George]], the very last Pinta Island Tortoise, died on June 24, 2012.
213* The last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenean_ibex Pyrenean Ibex]] was an old female named Celia, who was killed by a falling tree in early 2000. Celia was successfully cloned in 2003, but the clone died after approximately ten minutes. This made the Pyrenean Ibex the first (and possibly only) biological taxon to go extinct twice.
214* The last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine Tasmanian Tiger]], "Benjamin" [[note]]No actual records confirming that the individual was called by this name have ever been found, nor are there records of the man who made the claim having ever actually been an employee of the zoo[[/note]], died in the Hobart Zoo in 1936. [[{{Irony}} Only a few months prior, the species had received protection.]] The animal died of exposure to the elements because there was a strike at the zoo and he was locked outside with no shelter during a period of extreme daily highs and nightly lows because nobody remembered to open the door to his pen.
215* "Booming Ben", the last known living specimen of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_hen Heath Hen]] (''Tympanuchus cupido cupido''), was heard for the final time on March 11, 1932, on Martha's Vineyard, still hopefully drumming to try to attract a mate.
216* The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recorded the [[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.
217* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyophorbe_amaricaulis Hyophorbe amaricaulis]]'', the Loneliest Palm. This is a species of palm tree with only one known member in the world, in a garden in Mauritius.
218* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiohyla_rabborum Rabb's fringe-limbed tree frog]] was reduced to a single known specimen in 2012. Named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughie_(frog) Toughie]], his species had been wiped out by chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease that has been devastating frogs throughout the Americas and Australia. He died in 2016, most likely taking his species with him.
219* The last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_toad Golden Toad]] was a single male sighted in Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica In 1989.
220* The last confirmed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji baiji (Yangtze River dolphin)]] was Qiqi, who died in 2002.
221* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan_(rhinoceros) Sudan]], the last male [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros Northern White Rhino]], died on March 19, 2018, due to age-related complications, leaving two females --Najin (Sudan’s daughter) and Fatu (Najin’s daughter and Sudan’s granddaughter)-- who are living under constant protection from poachers and have health issues that prevent them from being able to become pregnant. In vitro fertilization (using genetically-similar Southern White Rhino females as surrogates) may be the only hope, as they did freeze his sperm and the sperm of other male rhinos, and the surviving females are still producing viable eggs that could be used.
222* The last [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs Aurochs]] was an old female that died in Poland's Jaktorow forest in 1627. She outlived the other last aurochs (three younger males) by over ten years.
223* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhuca_diplostemon This tree]] had specimens first collected in 1835. Since then, a ''single'' mature tree was found at the Koonayil Ayiravilli Shiva temple in Kerala.
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