image creditOnce one of the most numerous horned animals in North Africa, the Scimitar Oryx has now been classified as extinct in the wild.
A pale antelope with a ruddy chest this almost horse-like mammal would perhaps be unremarkable save for one thing - it's majestic and incredibly long curved horns. For this reason it was hunted almost to extinction.
(thanks Robert-John)
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