“Half zebra, half horse,” is what you could call this bizarre subspecies of the plains zebra.

The Quagga (named after the “kwa-ha-ha” sound that it made) had a horse-like body in the rear and a zebra-like body in the front.

Although the Quagga was once common in the region of present-day South Africa, it was hunted to extinction because it competed with domesticated animals for forage. The last Quagga died on August 12, 1883, in captivity in Amsterdam.

Cool Fact: There is a project in place that is trying to recreate the Quagga through selective breeding. The end goal is to release resemblances of the Quagga (not actual ones) into the plains that it originally roamed.