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Fascinating shots of extinct and endangered animals and plants

Taken from Marc Schlossman's new photography book, Extinction, these images document specimens from the Field Museum's private collections, from the critically endangered kakapo bird to the hawksbill sea turtle

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How do we make the most of our time? The power of confronting death

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How do we make the most of our time? The power of confronting death

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The Bronx Zoo

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Why has a court decided not to grant Happy the elephant personhood?

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When cats chew catnip it releases mosquito-repelling chemicals

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Agama lizard

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Lizard unfurls its face like a flower as a way to scare off predators

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E. coli bacteria

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Bacteria bred for 2000 generations settle long-term evolution mystery

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Psittacosaurus dinosaur fossil

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Some dinosaurs may have had the reptile version of a belly button

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C22PRK Monarch butterfly Overwinter site Pacific Grove California

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Monarch butterflies are doing surprisingly well in North America

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dog and man

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Dogs have two gene mutations that explain why they are friendly

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Fernanda, the only known living Fernandina giant tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus, or ?fantastic giant tortoise?), now lives at the Gal?pagos National Park's Giant Tortoise Breeding Center on Santa Cruz Island. Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century. Princeton geneticist Stephen Gaughran successfully extracted DNA from a specimen collected from the same island more than a century ago and confirmed that Fernanda and the museum specimen are members of the same species and genetically distinct from all other Gal?pagos tortoises.

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Galapagos tortoise thought extinct for 100 years has been found alive

A single female of the Fernandina Island tortoise species that was thought to be extinct for a century has been found in the Galapagos Islands

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Saving Virunga's endangered gorillas with green power and chocolate

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Thousands of coral larvae ‘planted’ under offshore wind turbine

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We may now know when chickens were domesticated – but not why

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Baby leatherback turtles struggle to find the sea on dark nights

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