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TIL of the Falkland Islands Wolf. An mysterious species which went extinct in 1876. It was observed by Charles Darwin. It had no fear of humans. It's debated whether it was brought to the isles by humans who later left, or migrated there when the islands may have been connected to the mainland.

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