seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 08 2007 | news, nature, politics, environment
These things look ugly-cute, the dodo was too. Are pugs next?
Quoted: Another day, another extinction: after a comprehensive six-week study scientists fear that the rare Chinese Yangtze river dolphins, known as “baijis”, may be extinct. Having failed to find any of the baiji, which were already classified as “critically endangered” by the World Conservation Union’s Red List of Treatened Species, the research team blamed unregulated fishing for the disappearance.
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