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NEWS ABOUT: extinct

extinct stories: 2 news summaries

(Newser) - A nearly perfectly preserved 37,000-year-old baby mammoth is giving up tantalizing secrets about her species, scientists report. The creature, dubbed Lyuba by researchers, still sports clumps of hair and eyelashes, according to the Telegraph. Scientists have been able to examine stomach contents and the mineral makeup of the bones... More »

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Siberia • extinction • species • extinct • woolly mammoth • prehistoric • prehistoric mammals • Mammoth • ice age

River Dolphin Declared Extinct

Scientists failed to find species in expedition

Aug 8, 07 5:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Calling it a "shocking tragedy," a team of marine scientists have declared the Yangtze river dolphin "likely extinct" after their failure to find a single animal in a recent research expedition. The scientists blamed massive over fishing along the Yangtze as the primary cause of the species'... More »

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China • Yangtze • dolphin • species • extinct • river dolphin • river • animal

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