Extinct Animals

Huge Prehistoric Predator Ruled Lost Continent, Fossils Suggest

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Video, Predators, Carnivores, Paleontology, Extinct Animals, Patagonia, Abelelisaurid, Prehistory, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stubby T Rex, Dinosaurs, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 05/22/2012 06:53 PM EDT on LiveScience A newfound giant predatory dinosaur with even stubbi...

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Dodos Died En Masse...4000 Years Ago

| Sid Perkins | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Maritius Wildlife, Video, Dodo Bird, Dodo, Extinct Animals, Giant Tortoise, Maritius, Archeology, Dodo Extinction, Fossil, Dodo Fossil, Science News

An extended drought that struck Mauritius about 4200 years ago turned one of the island's few sources of fresh water into a muddy death trap for do...

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Psst, Wanna Kill a Scimitar-Horned Oryx?

Mark Morford | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Texas, Machismo, Trophy Hunting, Endangered Species, Hunting, Sport Hunting, Extinct Animals, Game Preserves, Culture News
Mark Morford

Have you heard of these places? Giant ranches where giant men pay giant fees to be driven in luxury SUVs out onto huge swaths of privately owned property in order to shoot carefully bred and relatively tame creatures who never had a chance in the first place?

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Study: Next Great Mass Extinction May Have Already Begun

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scientists say the next mass extinction may already be under way. A new study, published in the most recent issue of the journal Nature states just t...

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PHOTOS: Saving Tasmanian Devils

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Endangered Animals, Tasmanian Devil Cancer, Australia, Tasmanian Devil, Extinction, Extinct Animals, Devil Facial Tumor Disease, Tasmanian Devil Extinction, Animals, Zoo Animals, Taronga Zoo, Tasmanian Devil Endangered, Slidepollajax, Green News

Australia's Taronga Zoo's newest exhibit is a Tasmanian devil breeding center. The center, located in Sydney, opened to aid the effort to prevent the ...

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Extinction in the Gulf

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sea Turtles, Kemp's Ridley, Extinct Animals, Extinction, Turtles, Sea-Turtles-Dying, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News
Arthur Rosenfeld

Back when I rescued that little sea turtle from a pet shop, I had no idea the planet was a mere forty years from turtle Armageddon.

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Woolly Mammoths Resurfacing In Siberia

Posted 05.25.2011

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A fantastic LA Times article details the recent proliferation of woolly mammoth bones in Siberia. As permafrost in the region thaws, entire villages ...

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Extinct Animals: 11 Species We've Lost In Our Lifetime

The Daily Green | Julie Gerstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Check out some of the beautiful creatures we've lost recently -- in just the last 40 years....

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Giant Cattle Bred Back From Extinction

telegraph.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aurochs were immortalised in prehistoric cave paintings and admired for their brute strength and "elephantine" size by Julius Caesar. But despite the...

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Can Extinct Animals Be Resurrected? (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Endangered Animals, Extinct, Extinct Animals Dna Technology, Woolly Mammoth, Extinct Animals, Endangered Species, Animals, DNA Technology, Cloning, Genetic Engineering, Video, Poll, Green News

The woolly mammoth and saber-tooth tiger may only be the stuff of legend today, but that may not always be the case, according to recent research on t...

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