Oxen Feared Extinct May Never Have Existed
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U.S. scientists say a species of ox discovered in Cambodia in 1937 and hailed as one of the 20th century's most famous finds might never have existed.
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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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By CHARLES HUTZLER  BEIJING - An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.
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Fossils from extinct dogs show why bigger is not better -- giant meat-eating animals died out because they relied too heavily on hunting other big animals, scientists reported on Thursday.
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A rare plant which was believed to be extinct in the UK is rediscovered in a Herefordshire orchard.
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A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction. The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder.
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Paleontologiosts from the Miguel Crusafont Institute of Paleontology and the Diputacisn de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain have found a fossil of a new ape species called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or its close relative that might have been the last
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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By John Cramer, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Mar. 4--The cougar supposedly disappeared in the eastern United States more than a century ago, a symbol of America's natural history and our unspoken fear of what lurks in the wilderness.
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A massive herd of animals thought to have been wiped out by decades of civil war in Southern Sudan has survived against the odds and could be one of the largest migrations of large mammals on the planet.
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WASHINGTON - A newly discovered fossil may be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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The BBC's Sue Nelson investigates claims that wild animals, who escaped the impact of the quake, may have a sixth sense.
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A newly discovered fossil may be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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A re-assessed fossil from a Velociraptor dinosaur suggests the animal was probably covered in feathers.
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IT is one of only two complete specimens ever known to be found - and it is causing a stir. The 7m-long Longman&#39;s beaked whale, which washed up on a beach at Byron Bay, was last seen in Australia in 1882.
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It sounds like a stretch, but a new study suggests that the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd raccoon-sized animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers. Or an overgrown long-legged rat.