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3 Species Declared Extinct

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2013 | Miami
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By Barbara Liston (Reuters) - After six years of searching, an entomologist has concluded that three varieties of butterflies native to south Florid...

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Bizarre Mouth-Birther Puts 'De-Extinction' In Spotlight

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 03.19.2013 | Science
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A bizarre species of frog that went extinct decades ago has been brought back to life. In an effort known as the Lazarus Project, scientists at th...

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POLL: Should Scientists Revive Extinct Creatures?

Posted 03.25.2013 | Science
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By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 03/15/2013 05:22 PM EDT on LiveScience Biologists briefly brought the extinct Pyrenean ibex back to life i...

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DNA Helps Solve Curious Case Of Extinct Carnivore

Posted 03.05.2013 | Science
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By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 03/05/2013 11:40 AM EST on LiveScience The mystery surrounding the origin of a wolflike preda...

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New Species Of Prehistoric Predator Found In Transylvania

Posted 02.06.2013 | Science
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By: Megan Gannon Published: 02/05/2013 11:56 AM EST on LiveScience Scientists say they've discovered the fossilized bones of a new type of pterosa...

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Fossils Cast Doubt On 'Killer Walrus' Claims

Posted 01.17.2013 | Science
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By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 01/17/2013 12:16 PM EST on LiveScience A "killer walrus" thought to have terrorized the North P...

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Fossilized Fangs Cast Doubt On Saber-Tooth Theory

Posted 12.31.2012 | Science
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By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 12/28/2012 10:55 AM EST on LiveScience Saber-toothed cats apparently did not go extinct for...

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Poaching Surged To Record Levels In 2011

AP | By EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 02.12.2013 | Green
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Elephant and Rhino poaching surged to record levels in 2011 and an increase in illegal tiger hunting makes the species' extinc...

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'Extinct' Venomous Mammal Shows Up After Long Search

| Posted 10.11.2012 | Science
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By John R. Platt The shrewlike Cuban solenodon (Solenodon cubanus)—a “living fossil” that has not changed much in millions of years—was all b...

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Maybe Lonesome George Wasn't So Lonesome, After All

Eva Glettner | Posted 08.25.2012 | Parents
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Eva Glettner

So, let's mourn poor George. He lived a good and long life. But he wasn't alone. Last of a kind, surely -- but surrounded by friends and family, nonetheless.

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Distant Human Ancestor Had Head Like WHAT?

Posted 06.14.2012 | Science
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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 06/13/2012 01:13 PM EDT on LiveScience Peer far enough back in the human family linea...

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In Search of Lost Sound: Mammoth Growls, Scratchy Dolls and Hisses of the Sun

Madeline Schwartzman | Posted 08.13.2012 | Science
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Madeline Schwartzman

Before you freeze to death in the Tyrolean mountains, consider this: 5000 years from now, if and when you are found, scientists will be able to tell the most personal details about you, even more than we know about Ötzi.

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Prehistoric Insects Were HOW Big?

| Posted 06.05.2012 | Science
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By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 06/04/2012 03:13 PM EDT on LiveScience Millions of years ago, oversized insects like gri...

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Huge Prehistoric Predator Ruled Lost Continent, Fossils Suggest

Posted 05.23.2012 | Science
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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 | Science
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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 | Home
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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 | Green
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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 | Green
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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 | Green
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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 | Green
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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 | Green
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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 | Green
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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 | Green
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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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