New hope over 'extinct' echidna
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An egg-laying mammal, named after TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough, is not extinct after all, say scientists.
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EU to demand Highlander's credentials Legislation designed to protect endangered species will require sporran-wearing Scots to be able to prove their fur-pouch was legally killed, according to reports on the BBC.â¦
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a tree-climbing creature that lived 13 million years ago in what is now northeastern Spain and may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes
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Science & environment: The mysterious case of St Kilda's vanishing black sheep has been solved by geneticists
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Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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One of the rarest birds on Earth came closer to being wiped out &#151; if not already extinct &#151; with the death of one of the last three believed to exist, officials said.
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Almost a third of the world's amphibian species are confronted by the prospect of extinction, naturalists say.
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In the search for a missing evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with the body of a small deer.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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WASHINGTON: Using computer programs, scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental
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The little-known vaquita, of which only about 400 remain, may be the next marine mammal to disappear, researchers warn.
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One of Earth's rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po'ouli.
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Two of Britain's rarest breeds of wild pony could be saved from extinction by being given a novel job in mountain conservation, new research suggests.
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One of the UK's rarest birds is found in the East Anglian Fens for the first time since World War II.
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CALGARY, Alberta - A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.
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Brazilian scientists hope that two captivity-raised male Amazon manatees they plan to reintroduce to the wild will spark a bout of reproduction that might save the endangered species from extinction.
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By Sandra Tan, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 20--The Henslow's sparrow prefers to stay hidden.   But the threatened species has been found in Lancaster, and its presence has stopped a developer from moving forward with its plan for a major housing development.