are saber toothed squirrels extinct?
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Forget saber-toothed cats; the hottest new species is the saber-toothed squirrel. ... The species has been named Cronopio dentiacutus, and is a member of the extinct superorder Dryolestoidea, the ancestor group to modern-day marsupials and placental mammals.
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The last herd was sighted in 1967, and the last individual horse in 1969. Expeditions after this failed to locate any horses, and the species had been designated "extinct in the wild" for over 30 years. After 1945, only two captive populations in zoos remained, in Munich and in Prague.
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Summary: The number of red squirrels is on the increase in Ireland thanks to the return of the pine marten, a native carnivore, a new survey has found. ... The re-emergence of the pine marten, which had previously almost disappeared in Ireland, is linked to the local demise of the greys.
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['Abrocomidae (chinchilla rats)', 'Anomaluridae (scaly-tailed squirrels)', 'Aplodontidae (mountain beaver)', 'Bathyergidae (mole rats)', 'Calomyscidae (mouse-like hamsters)', 'Capromyidae (West Indian hutias)', 'Castoridae (beavers)']
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['1. California Condor. The New World vulture species, the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), became extinct from the wild in 1987.', "H.J. Franklin's Bumblebee. ... ", 'Giant Sea-bass. ... ', "Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle. ... ", 'Oahu Tree Snails. ... ', 'Pygmy Raccoon. ... ', "Rabb's Fringe Limb Tree Frog. ... ", 'Red Wolf. ... ']
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The clearing of its habitat, changes to fire patterns and introduced foxes and wild cats, all threaten their existence. They only survive today in small isolated populations. Our work with Martu people is helping them make a comeback.
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First up is the critically endangered Darwin's fox (Lycalopex fulvipes). ... Unlike a lot of other critically endangered species, though, the scientific consensus seems to be that these rare foxes are relatively safe and their population is stable.
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Smilodon is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. ... Although commonly known as the saber-toothed tiger, it was not closely related to the tiger or other modern cats. Smilodon lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya – 10,000 years ago).
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For Amargosa voles, existence has always been tenuous. ... Four years later, the federal government also declared the Amargosa vole an endangered species.
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The list of mammalian predators that will take squirrels if the opportunity arises is considerable and includes red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), domestic cats (Felis catus), wild cats (Felis sylvestris), domestic dogs (Canis familiaris), badgers (Meles meles), polecats (Mustela putorius), weasels (M.
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Red squirrels are rare in Wales. The main populations are on Anglesey, in Clocaenog forest and in mid-Wales, but there are a few other sites that still have red squirrels. The red squirrel is threatened by the non-native grey squirrel, through disease (the squirrelpox virus) and competition for food.
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'Extinct' Galapagos tortoise found after 100 years. (CNN) — A species of giant tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years has been discovered on the Galapagos island of Fernandina, according to Ecuador's government. The last known time a Fernandina Giant Tortoise was seen alive was 1906.
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The eastern gray squirrel is a bushy-tailed member of the rodent family. ... Florida is home to two other species of squirrels, the fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) and the southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans).
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Human activity may have caused giant sloths and other large mammals in North America to go extinct 11,000 years ago.
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The last antelopes left of their kind. There may only be three remaining Saharan Addax antelopes left in the wild, meaning they are on the brink of extinction.
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['Manny the Mammoth. Manny is a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), a species that lived about 200,000 years ago on the steppes of eastern Eurasia and North America. ... ', 'Sid the Giant Ground Sloth. ... ', 'Diego the Smilodon. ... ', 'Scrat the "Saber-Toothed" Squirrel.']
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Squirrels in Australia As for Australia, we shouldn't have any squirrels here because they're competition for our native possums, but over a century ago, two species were deliberately introduced. ... The species has since then gone extinct.