extinction
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LA’s Mountain Lions May Face Extinction — But There’s A Way To Save Them
Cougars have called California home long before humans have. In Los Angeles, however, urbanisation and human activity are driving nearby mountain populations toward possible extinction, according to a new study.
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Scientists Find Red Wolf DNA In A Unique Group Of Wild Dogs In Texas
One of America’s native wild canines, the red wolf, has teetered on the brink of extinction for decades. And despite the efforts of a captive breeding program started in the 1970s, only about 40 such wolves are known to be still living in the wild today, all in North Carolina. But researchers at Princeton University…
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New Story, Same Big Old Bird
Madagascar’s history contains some truly enormous animals, from giant lemurs to giant tortoises. The island was also home to 3m-tall flightless birds, which sadly disappeared hundreds of years ago. But how we humans classified those birds was, well, a mess.
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Ant-Man’s Michael Peña Saves The World In Netflix’s First Extinction Trailer
Video: Night after night, a father has terrible dreams. Dreams of death. Invasion. Destruction. Then those dreams start to become reality, and he’ll stop at nothing to save his family. That’s the plot of Extinction, a new Netflix sci-fi film that just got its first trailer.