Largest mink

The world’s largest species of mink was the sea mink (Mustela macrodon), a scarcely known species that measured up to 82.6 cm (32.5 in) long (half as long again as the longest specimens of the common American mink (M. vison), and also much fatter). It inhabited the rocky coasts of New England and Canada’s Atlantic coastline as far north as Nova Scotia, but due to its highly prized pale-reddish fur it was hunted into extinction. The last known specimen was killed on an island off Maine in 1889, but there is an unconfirmed report of a sea mink taken on New Brunswick’s Campobello Island during the mid-1890s.