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Years From Now, Largest Mammal On Earth May Be A Domestic Cow: Study
The spread of humans around the world from Africa thousands of years ago wiped out big mammals in a shrinking trend that could make the cow the biggest mammal on Earth in a few centuries' time, a scientific study said on Thursday.
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Giraffes, Rarer Than Elephants, Put On Extinction Watch List
Because the giraffe population has shrunk nearly 40 percent in just 30 years, scientists put it on the official watch list of threatened and endangered species worldwide, calling it "vulnerable."
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Human Hunters Wiped out Ice Age Animals
Large animals in Ice Age that included Sabre-toothed cats, huge kangaroos, and a leopard-sized marsupial lion became extinct because of human hunters and not climate change, says a new study.
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Rescuers try to free humpback whale beached in Brazil
Rescuers are trying to set free a 25-ton humpback whale stranded on a sand bank in southeastern Brazil.Diogo Chaves of the environment department at the beach resort city of Buzios says the 39- foot-long (12-meter-long) whale got stranded on Monday while feeding on a school of small fish in shallow waters.He said Tuesday that rescuers have tied rop...
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Years From Now, Largest Mammal On Earth May Be A Domestic Cow: Study
The spread of humans around the world from Africa thousands of years ago wiped out big mammals in a shrinking trend that could make the cow the biggest mammal on Earth in a few centuries' time, a scientific study said on Thursday.
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Giraffes, Rarer Than Elephants, Put On Extinction Watch List
Because the giraffe population has shrunk nearly 40 percent in just 30 years, scientists put it on the official watch list of threatened and endangered species worldwide, calling it "vulnerable."
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Human Hunters Wiped out Ice Age Animals
Large animals in Ice Age that included Sabre-toothed cats, huge kangaroos, and a leopard-sized marsupial lion became extinct because of human hunters and not climate change, says a new study.
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Rescuers try to free humpback whale beached in Brazil
Rescuers are trying to set free a 25-ton humpback whale stranded on a sand bank in southeastern Brazil.Diogo Chaves of the environment department at the beach resort city of Buzios says the 39- foot-long (12-meter-long) whale got stranded on Monday while feeding on a school of small fish in shallow waters.He said Tuesday that rescuers have tied rop...
