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In shallow coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, a seagrass-scrounging cousin of the manatee is in trouble. Environmental strains like pollution and habitat loss pose a major threat to dugong (Dugong dugon) survival, so much so…
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Climate change and habitat degradation will cause extinctions that cascade through communities of animals and plants and drive dramatic biodiversity loss, according to new research published on Friday. The study, in the journal Science…
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The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are devastating marine life, with nearly a tenth of underwater plants and animals assessed so far threatened with extinction, the latest Red List of Threatened Species showed on…
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The rhinoceros is back in the wilds of Mozambique, after being locally extinct more than 40 years ago. A group of guards captured a number of black and white rhinos, drugged them, and transported them over 1,600 km to Zinev National Park…
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Social media pages circulate, from time to time, a strange and rare sight of a bird that can disguise itself in a unique way, as it turns into a silent piece of wood, in every sense of the word. Videos of the unique bird are widely spread,…
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The Komodo dragon, a rare species of reptile, is facing the threat of extinction, according to the statistics of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, especially since its number worldwide does not exceed 1,400. This was…
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Geneticists, led by George Church of Harvard Medical School, aim to bring the woolly mammoth, which disappeared 4,000 years ago, back to life, and the effort has secured a $15 million investment. Scientists will create an…
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A farmer in China's Henan Province, a region famous for the thousands of dinosaur eggs people found in 2018, has found an incredibly thick-shelled turtle egg that he donated to a university. A report published by "Live Science" indicated…
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Astronomers say they may have reached the origin of the asteroid, which ended the era of the dinosaurs, who lived on Earth, millions of years ago. The British newspaper "The Independent" reported, in a report on the reason for the end of…
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