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Florida Panther Not Extinct, Eastern Cougar Is; Here's the Difference

How well do you know your cougars? On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the eastern cougar (Puma concolor couguar) is extinct. A subspecies of the larger cougar family, the eastern cougar has been on the endangered species list since 1973. After a formal review, the Fish and Wildlife Service...

Tasmanian Devils Almost Extinct: 5 Facts About the Endangered Marsupials

They're tough. They're carnivorous. They're iconic critters, even though they're neither cute nor cuddly. And soon they may be gone. Scientists are reporting that the Tasmanian devil is nearing extinction because of a highly infectious form of cancer that has wiped out 90 percent of the population. The cancer, called...

Report: A Fifth of World's Animals Risk Extinction

(Oct. 27) -- A fifth of the world's mammals, birds, reptiles and fish are in imminent danger of being snuffed into extinction, according to a new study that also notes that conservation efforts are slowing many species' demise. The research, prepared by 174 scientists from around the world, was published in the journal...

Rinderpest Virus Eradicated: How to Knock a Virus Into Nonexistence

(Oct. 15) -- It's been more than three decades since the World Health Organization declared that mankind had "won freedom from smallpox," a devastating virus that once killed millions of people each year. Now rinderpest, a virus that afflicts cattle, has become the second virus ever declared fully eradicated by scientists,...

Fossils Indicate Earliest Dinosaurs Were Size of a Cat

(Oct. 6) -- Paleontologists say they've found the oldest evidence of the emergence of dinosaurs -- 250-million-year-old fossilized footprints that suggest the earliest ones were small, cat-size animals that walked on all fours. "We describe the indisputably oldest fossils of the dinosaur lineage: footprints from the Early...

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Ancient Beast Unearthed On Island Was Smallest Of Its Type

The smallest dwarf mammoth, standing at under 4 feet (about 1 meter) at the shoulders, has been uncovered on the Greek island of Crete, researchers say.

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Coelacanth Skull Found In China Shows 'Fossil Fish' Older Than Previously Thought

A group of ancient fish, called coelacanths, have changed so little over time they are known as "living fossils."

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05/30/12 Human skull, bones found in northern Arizona Source: ABC - KGUN 9 - Tucson AZ FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. Coconino County authorities say human remains have been found in the Forest Lakes area northeast of Payson.
05/29/12 Human skull, bones found in the Flagstaff area Source: FOX - KMSB 11 - Tucson AZ FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. Coconino County authorities say human remains have been found in the Forest Lakes area near Flagstaff.
05/29/12 Long recovery from mass extinction seen Source: United Press International (UPI) It took 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction ever when life was nearly wiped out 250 million years ago, researchers say.
05/29/12 Australians 'may have to choose what to save' Source: PhysOrg.com The dilemma over how much of Australia we will pass on to our grandchildren cannot be solved by science but only by society, one of the nation's leading ecologists, Professor Hugh Possingham, warned today.
05/28/12 Prehistoric cold case links humans to Tasmanian... Source: PhysOrg.com Analysis carried out at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) on the skeletal remains of extinct megafauna is providing substantial proof that for about 2,000 years they infact shared the island with early humans before suddenly disappearing some time before the last ice age.