Extinct Species

Foreign Leader Joins Battle Over Dinosaur Skeleton

Posted 05.24.2012

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By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/24/2012 08:12 AM EDT on LiveScience A fossilized dinosaur that was once at the top of i...

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Titanoboa, Biggest Snake That Ever Lived, Was HOW Big?

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 03.21.2012

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What's the world's biggest snake? Experts say it's the reticulated python, specimens of which can exceed 20 feet in length. But these big guys are pip...

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Species Endangered, But Not According To The U.S.?

| Posted 12.16.2011

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By Rose Eveleth (Click here for original article.) In the last few months the Western black rhino and the South Florida Rainbow Snake have gone ex...

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Hunters May Have Delivered Fatal Blow To Mammoths

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHERSKY, Russia — During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years a...

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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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3 More Birds Close To Extinction

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA — An Ethiopian lark, a Galapagos finch and a spectacularly colored hummingbird only recently discovered in Colombia have been added to th...

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LAOTIAN ROCK RAT Among Discovered (And Rediscovered) Species

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus) has been rediscovered, millions of years after it was thought the breed was extinct. Researchers say the ...

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Should We Move Species To Save Them?

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move som...

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