Posted by kittymowmow in Uncategorized on 12 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Bison roundup shows species’ recovery on prairie

It’s 6 a.m. and the cowboys are already downing second and third cups of coffee, adjusting to a 35-degree morning. Slowly, a full moon and stars give way to hues of orange sky. And with daybreak, what had been obscured comes into clearer focus: hundreds of shaggy bison standing on an unfenced landscape...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Conservation, Dogs, Extinct Species, Mammals, Science & Tech on 11 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Japanese Scientists One Step Closer to Cloning Extinct Animals: Godzilla First In Line, Then Mothra

Image via Wikipedia Scientists say that they have taken a step closer to recreating extinct animals like the mammoth, after successfully cloning living mice from donor animals that had been frozen. A team of Japanese scientists produced the clones after thawing mice that had been frozen at minus 20C...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Birds, Conservation, Extinct Species on 10 24th, 2008 | No Comments

‘Extinct’ Cockatoo Rediscovered in Indonesia

Image by flickr.com user aussiegall A species of cockatoo feared to have become extinct has been "rediscovered" with the sighting of a handful of breeding pairs on a remote Indonesian island, researchers said Thursday. Ten Yellow-crested Abbott's cockatoos were found on the Masalembu archipelago off...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Conservation, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Mammals on 10 17th, 2008 | No Comments

Red squirrel ‘becoming immune’ to killer virus

Image courtesy of flickr.com user Gilles Gonthier The embattled red squirrel – feared to be facing extinction in England and Wales within 25 years – may have developed a last-gasp trick to save it from a deadly virus being spread by its grey American cousin. Wild red squirrels have developed an...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Endangered Species on 08 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment

New book highlights animals facing extinction

During the planet's long history there have been several so-called "extinction events" when a large number species have perished. [...] Now there is a growing consensus among scientists that a sixth extinction event has already begun with species disappearing at an unsurpassed rate. It is possible that...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 08 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Dying Frogs Sign Of A Biodiversity Crisis

Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just frogs, salamanders and their ilk, according to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley. In a new article published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 08 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Some Prehistoric Giants Killed by People, Not Climate

The chance discovery of the remains of a prehistoric giant kangaroo has cast doubts on the long-held view that climate change drove it and other mega-fauna to extinction, a new study reveals. The research, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 08 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Humpback Whales on Road to Recovery

The humpback whale, nearly hunted into history four decades ago, is now on the "road to recovery" and is no longer considered at high risk of extinction, an environmental group said Tuesday. The International Union for Conservation of Nature -- the producer each year of a Red List of threatened species...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 08 11th, 2008 | No Comments

Brown Tree Snake Could Mean Guam Will Lose More Than Its Birds

In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, the snakes caused the extinction of nearly every native bird species on the Pacific island of Guam. A...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 08 4th, 2008 | No Comments

Newly Discovered Monkey Is Threatened With Extinction

Just three years after it was discovered, a new species of monkey is threatened with extinction according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which recently published the first-ever census of the endangered primate. Known as the "kipunji," the large, forest-dwelling primate hovers at 1,117 individuals,...
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