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Scientists sound alarm after witnessing disturbing change in near-extinct species: 'We just knew that there weren't very many left'

A rare species faces extinction after the population drops to the staggeringly low number of just 38 surviving fish. According to an article in SFGATE, the Devil's Hole pupfish — one of Earth's rarest ...
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Should We De-Extinct The Woolly Mammoth? No, Save The Elephants

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...
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32 Animals That Sadly Went Extinct And Why

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
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Meet 4 ‘Extinct’ Animals That Were Miraculously Rediscovered (Hint: One Was An Ancient Fish Found In A Fishing Net In 1938)

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...
Live Science

Colossal's de-extinction campaign is built on a semantic house of cards with shoddy foundations — and the consequences are dire

The idea of resurrecting extinct organisms is alluring; I would love to see one of the strange Cambrian animals like Hallucigenia and Opabinia, feathered dinosaurs, the giant hornless rhino "Walter" ...