8 Animals That Recently Went Extinct

When you think of extinct animals, you might go to a saber-toothed cat, or the infamous dodo. But there are, unfortunately, a ...
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These 23 Animals Have Gone Extinct in the Past 150 Years

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...
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Remembering Extinct Creatures: The Bronx Zoo’s Animal Graveyard

On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the ...
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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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Scientists plan resurrection of Tasmanian tiger, animal that's been extinct since 1936

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...
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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 ...
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How Anacondas Persisted While Other Giant Reptiles Went Extinct

Anacondas achieved their massive size millions of years ago. Discover how anacondas stayed huge while other giant reptiles died out!
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Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...