Sumatran Rhino Is Extinct in Malaysia as Lone Survivor Dies
The Sumatran rhinoceros has become extinct in Malaysia, after the last of the species in the country succumbed to cancer.
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Plan Mulls Killing More Sea Lions to Save Salmon
Decades of efforts, including billions of dollars spent, to prevent the extinction of 13 species of Columbia River salmon and steelhead were stymied by the resurgence of gregarious mammals who themselves returned from the brink. Now, a new plan backed by Native American tribes and three states would attempt to protect the fish by killing more sea lions.
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Colorado Dig Offers Insight on the Rise of Mammals, Post-Extinction Event
Most professional and amateur paleontologists had written off the Corral Bluffs in Colorado Springs as a site where everything that could be found had been found. Then vertebrate paleontologist Tyler Lyson had an idea: Instead of looking for bones, he started looking for concretion – minerals known to form around bones.
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The Law Worked: Bird Will Fly Off Endangered List
After 34 years on the endangered species list, the least tern, a tiny Midwestern bird, is ready to fly free of federal protection.
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The Southern Environmental Law Center sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court for information on “the conservation and management of North Carolina’s critically endangered red wolf,” which may have been reduced to only 14 animals.
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Microscopic Evidence Sheds Light on Megafauna Extinctions
As the world grapples with climate change, scientists are studying the extinction of the world’s largest mammals during the Ice Age to look for answers about Earth’s future.
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Half of Europe’s Endemic Trees at Risk of Extinction
More than half of Europe’s endemic tree species, including the horse chestnut, risk extinction, conservationists warned Friday, blaming invasive species, unsustainable logging and urban development for their decline.
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House Dems Push Legislation to Protect Endangered Species
Climate scientists believe Earth is in the middle of its sixth mass extinction event, and in light of that, House Democrats Tuesday renewed calls for legislation that would reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of key protections for endangered wildlife and plant species.
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Lab-Created Embryos Could Save Northern White Rhinos From Extinction
Scientists announced Wednesday they have succeeded in creating two embryos of the near-extinct northern white rhino as part of an international effort to save the species, which is down to just two animals worldwide, both of them female.
Read moreScientists a Step Closer to Saving Northern White Rhino From Extinction
Veterinarians have successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said in Kenya on Friday.
Read moreDive Into La Brea Tar Pits Reveals Why Coyotes Outlived Saber-Toothed Cats
The thick soup that is Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits provides a brutal lesson in nature and helps explain why today Angelenos have coyote problems instead of large saber-toothed cats in the Hollywood Hills.
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Island Conifers Face Extinction Threat From Climate Change
Despite being able to survive in harsh climate conditions, researchers say in a study released Monday that several species of conifer trees and shrubs native to small islands could face extinction by 2070.
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2 Rare Barbary Lion Cubs Born in Czech Zoo
Two Barbary lion cubs have been born in a Czech zoo, a welcome addition to a small surviving population of a rare lion subspecies that has been extinct in the wild.
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Scientists Successfully Transfer 1st Test Tube Rhino Embryo
Scientists in Europe said Tuesday they’ve successfully transferred a test tube rhino embryo back into a female whose eggs were fertilized in vitro, as part of an effort to save another nearly extinct sub-species of the giant horned mammal.
Read moreSurvival of the Smallest: Scientists Predict Results of Coming Extinction Event
Survival will favor small birds and mammals who can live on insects and thrive in a wide range of changing habitats even as larger animals die off over the next hundred years, according to a team of researchers who predict future extinctions will not be random.
Read moreResearchers Find ‘Tipping Point’ for Asian Elephants
Conservation efforts narrowly focused on species risk of extinction are likely to miss other important road signs along the way. This is especially true of large animals, which reproduce and rebound slowly, argues a study focused on Asian elephants published Friday.
Read moreUnited Nations Offers Gloomy Report on Global Biodiversity
Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday in the United Nations’ first comprehensive report on biodiversity.
Read moreRecovery From Current Climate Crisis Will Take Millions of Years
Should the worst prognosis for climate-ravaged planet Earth materialize, the recovery time for the globe would be slow and arduous, according to a new study published Monday.
Read moreStudy Finds SoCal Mountain Lions in Danger of Extinction
A study released Wednesday describes a dire scenario for mountain lions in California’s Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains, as researchers say habitat loss and a lack of genetic diversity will drive the local population to extinction over the next decade.
Read moreConservationists Demand Half-Billion for Endangered Species
Lambasting government backlogs and shoestring protection budgets, more than 215 organizations submitted a letter Tuesday asking Congress to support endangered-species conservation with a budget of $486 million.
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