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Species Missing in Action: Rare or Already Extinct?
Posted by Frederic Briand of The Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM) in Ocean Views on October 22, 2012
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If we think for a minute about species driven to extinction during the course of human history, chances are most of us will come up with names of large, terrestrial species like the dodo, the mammoth or the Aurochs. And there are good reasons for that: in the past 500 years alone hundreds…
The Sixth Great Extinction: A Silent Extermination
Posted by IZILWANE on March 28, 2012 
LONESOME GEORGE Lonesome George is a large, mud-loving Pinta tortoise (Geochelone elephantopus abingdoni), living out his long life in the Galapagos Islands. In 1971, George was found alone on Pinta Island and taken to the Charles Darwin Research Station, where scientists theorized that he was the last of his subspecies on the planet. When he dies,…
