Extinct Wildlife
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The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: Extinct, Rediscovered, or Both?
Theo Hartwell on the long, strange story of Campephilus principalis — and why the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service withdrew its 2021 extinction proposal.
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EXTINCT FOR A CENTURY
The Passenger Pigeon Has Been Extinct For A Century. Only Stuffed And Mounted Specimens Remain. One Hundred Years Ago This Month The Passenger Pigeon Vanished From The Earth The fate…
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The Little Dodo Bird
The little dodo birds goes by other names as well, including the tooth-billed pigeon, and in it’s native Samoa, the Manumea bird. Although just 12 inches (31 cm) in length,…
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Extinct Species Rediscovered
The Greenback Cutthroat Trout Reappears Species are often divided into a number of subspecies, each of which is designed by nature to inhabit and enrich a subtly—or even vastly—different environmental…
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Golden Lion Tamarin Saved From Extinction
The vast Amazon rainforest is the South American tropical ecosystem most people are familiar with, and which many conservationists are most concerned about, because of logging and land clearing…
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Wild Horse Saved From Extintion
Most of the equines in the American West, Australia, and elsewhere that we think of as “wild” horses actually are not wild but feral—domesticated animals that have escaped or…
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Siberian Tiger Saved From Extinction
Strange and marvelous to think about is the fact that, while the cave lion, the saber-tooth tiger and many other species of predatory cat long ago passed on into paleontolological…
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