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Who mourns the dodo?

Who mourns the dodo? Who laments the passenger pigeon? These are serious questions. They go directly to the heart of discussions of the Endangered...
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Smithsonian biologists build habitat ark to save golden frogs

On Monday, scientists at the Smithsonian National Zoo announced a treatment that will hopefully lead to a cure for the chytrid fungus that has been...
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Redefining Extinction

The seeds from a plant that were preserved in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years were recently rescued by Russian scientists, defrosted,...
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Lions the next dinosaur?

450,000 lions roamed Africa the year I was born -Less than 20,000 exist in the wild now just 50 years later. Human population will top EIGHT...
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Western Black Rhinos officially extinct - God Bless their souls

November 10, 2011 marks another scathing indictment of Humanity’s disgrace: The official declaration of theextinction of the Western Black...
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Global warming likely to decimate sea life

Research published on October 27, 2011, in the journal Current Biology indicate that global warming has produced a migration of seaweed in the...
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Animal speed related to extinction in climate change

Researchers from Aarhus University (Denmark) have produced the first evidence of correlation between animal survival potential and climate change....
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Half of Earth’s animals may die due to climate change

A new study of animal survival in periods of extreme climate change and long term adverse changes in climate by researchers from Brown University...
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How Far We Have Fallen: #4

(back)#4: Extinction "They eat people! For the love of Pete, they’re big, angry bears. They eat people." So said Glenn Beck to...
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The world’s 15 rarest and most critically endangered mammals

You think pandas and Bengal tigers have it bad? They do, but they have nothing on the mammal species (or subspecies) on this list. They are listed...
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