Latest Stories in Endangered Species - Page 10
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Conservationists Optimistic About Rare Rhino Pregnancy
For the Sumatran rhinoceros, the birth of even a single calf is a significant achievement.
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Prehistoric Atlantic Sturgeon Newest Addition to the Endangered Species List
The ancient Atlantic sturgeon is the latest species to be added to the Endangered Species List.
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Endangered Green Turtle Baby Boom Breaks 28-year Record
A baby boom in the Philippines spells great news for endangered green sea turtles.
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Why Bats Need a 'Happy Hour' and Swedes Try to Comply
Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour'
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The Week in Animal News: Wild Gorillas Visit Humans, Cloning Endangered Animals and More
In Uganda, a troop of wild mountain gorillas visited a human camping ground, even grooming one man. Stem cell technology could allow for the cloning of endangered species, and more.
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Endangered Snow Leopard Makes Off With Camera-Trap
Despite the enormous advantages afforded by low-key technology like camera-traps, there is one small detail scientists likely failed to consider: that wildlife would end up stealing their stuff.
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Sumatran Elephants Could Be Extinct Within 30 Years
Over the next three decades, the human population is projected to reach 9 billion people. In that same time, Sumatran elephants, currently numbering around 2,500, are expected to reach zero.
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Continuing Texas Drought Threatens World's Only Self-Sustaining Population of Whooping Cranes
Record-breaking drought is leading to some coastal marshes being saltier than the ocean, and toxic red tide is washing along the shore, threatening whooping cranes.
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Lab-Grown Clones Could Save Species From Extinction
Thanks to advances in stem cell technology, modern conservationists may soon be trading in their sweat-soaked field clothes for lab coats.
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Biodiversity Loss Versus Climate Change: Which is Worse?
Scientists fighting for political action say biobiversity loss is worse than climate change.
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A Bored Gorilla Takes His Kids to the Zoo (Video)
Close Encounters of the Great Ape Kind, at Bwindi park near Uganda, Africa.
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The Week in Animal News: Panda Eats Meat, Dolphins and Whales Play, and More
A panda in China threw everyone for a loop when it was photographed eating a goat-antelope. We also have a dolphin-whale playdate, ways to save seabirds and more.
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Poachers Have Already Killed Eleven African Rhinos in 2012
It's been just a little over two weeks since the new year began, but it's already shaping up to be another deadly year for South Africa's imperiled rhinos.
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Exclusive: The Cruel Reality of the Global Shark Fin Trade, in Pictures
Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless takes us inside the brutal world of shark finning.
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The Week in Animal News: First Snub Nosed Monkey Photos, Cockroaches Generating Power, and More
Check out the first photos of the recently discovered snub nosed monkey. We also have cockroaches generating electricity, exotic pet ownership gone wrong, and more.
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6 Tragic Stories of Exotic Pet Ownership Gone Wrong
From a toddler's confrontation with a python to a bear named Teddy that was not a toy, these dark animal captivity stories should deter some from keeping an exotic animal as a pet.
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Mysterious Snub-Nosed Monkey Photographed For the First Time
Thanks to remote camera traps set in the forests of northern Myanmar, the very first photo of the distinctive-looking monkey, alive but imperiled, have been captured.
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Giant Tortoise Species May Not Be So Extinct After All
They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'.
