The Mexican Grizzly Bear, a subspecies of the Brown Bear, has been extinct for nearly 50 years. The Conquistadors who arrived in the area in the 16th century were the first Europea
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The Golden toad was the most brilliantly colored toads. It has been listed as an extinct species. It lived on a single mountain in Costa Rica. Climate change altered its breedin
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The Western Black Rhino faced insurmountable odds against poachers and dwindled to less than ten members before disappearing entirely. They are now extinct.
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Massive hunting decimated the Pyrenean Ibex, and by the later part of the 19th century the species had less than a hundred members left. The Ibex never recovered, and in January of
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The delicate Kaua'i O'o was just one of the many casualties that resulted from the arrival of European ships carrying rats, pigs and mosquitoes into a defenseless Hawaiian ecology.
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The Southern Day Frog was one of seven frog species to disappear in Australia since 1978. His extinction was caused by a number of factors, but human beings undoubtedly played a ro
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In the humid sub-tropical forests of Portugal a majestic white butterfly once flew. In the last fifteen years however, not one has been found, leading to the Madeira Large White be
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The Caribbean monk seal is the only seal to become extinct solely because of man. This “true” seal has not been seen in over 50 years and the last 2 species of monk seal may b
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Species extinction occurs when the last member of a species dies, even though the ability to reproduce may have been lost before that point. Extinction occurs for a variety of reas
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There is so much more to life than just wasting and leaving footprints on the earth. We need to be eco-friendly by recycling and reusing our waste products. We can all do our par
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