The 30-foot sea cow quickly hunted to extinction because of its tasty meat

Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic.
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These 23 Animals Have Gone Extinct in the Past 150 Years

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...
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When Did Some Ancient Extinct Species Return To The Sea? Machine Learning Helps Find The Answer

When the ancestors of terrestrial life on Earth crawled or slithered out of the sea, they formed the starting point for many ...
AOL

32 Animals That Sadly Went Extinct And Why

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Survive Mass Extinctions, Reef-Building Corals Retreat to the Deep Blue Sea

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...
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Green sea turtle no longer endangered

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Here on the Suncoast, there are two main species of sea turtles that nest on our beaches... The ...
NBC Chicago

Endangered sea turtle populations show signs of recovery in part of the world

Endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide, according to a new global survey released Thursday. “Many of the turtle populations have come back, ...
KMBC Kansas City

Endangered rescue sea turtle flown across country to new home at SEA LIFE Kansas City

OUT ABOUT HER JOURNEY HERE TO KANSAS CITY. SHE MIGHT BE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED AND A LITTLE SHY, BUT YOU COULD STILL SEE HER RIGHT NOW AT SEA LIFE. THEY EVEN NEED YOUR HELP PICKING OUT HER NAME FOR ...