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The Most Devastating Animal Extinctions in Recent History
MediaFeed via AOL· 3 hours agoHere are 10 of the most devastating animal extinctions in recent history, plus a closer look at the...
Lake Shasta was home to Shastasaurus, sea lizards, these other prehistoric marine reptiles
Redding Record Searchlight via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAnother North State ichthyosaur was Toretocnemus. The most modern of the three ichthyosaurs, this ...
Extinct ‘mountain jewel’ plant returned to wild - in secret location
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days ago[BBC/Gwyndaf Hughes] He got into botany after wanting to save animals as a child and a brief spell...
Australian scientists discover ancient 'echidnapus'
BBC via AOL· 6 hours agoFossilised pieces of the animal's jaw bone were found in opal fields in northern New South Wales, alongside evidence of several other ancient and now ...
Why eagles have largely gone extinct from Western Europe
NPR· 1 day agoMICHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of them is the greater spotted eagle. ADHAM ASHTON-BUTT: It's this amazing, huge, charismatic eagle that specializes in pretty remote wetland environments. They've largely ...
Recovery of Brazil's Spix's macaw, popularized in animated 'Rio' films, threatened by climate change
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoAll Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is...
Stone Age humans hunted extinct elephants to eat, camp reveals
Newsweek· 6 days agoArchaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric site in South America where hunter-gatherers butchered a...
Mediterranean in better shape than in the 1980s, say marine biologists
Daily Telegraph· 1 day agoThe mission detected species that “we thought had become extinct”, including angelsharks and blue...
Ancient DNA reconstructs genome of extinct NZ native moa
Cosmos· 5 days agoScientists have reconstructed the near-complete genome of the little bush moa (Anomalopteryx...
Extreme weather is having a dire effect on animals. Here’s what’s being done to protect them.
Yahoo News via AOL· 6 days agoAs animals like howler monkeys fall dead from trees in Mexico due to high temperatures,...