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Feds Showing More Love for Uglier Endangered Species

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 29, 2009 1:28 PM CDT

(Newser) – When you’re an endangered species jockeying for federal funding, good looks are historically a plus. That may be changing, the Washington Post reports. In the past, researchers note, “there has been a very heavy bias toward ‘charismatic megafauna’—relatively large, well-known...   Read full story »

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