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The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit is essentially a separate subspecies compared with other pygmy rabbits. Twenty were released into the wild in efforts to sustain the species. Two males left the study area and were recollected to go back into breeding programs.
Are you up to the task of comparing these photos of thylacines (Tasmanian tigers), Tasmanian devils, Spotted-tail quolls (also known as Tiger quolls) and Eastern quolls?
Saving the world one animal at a time. Estimated at odds of 1 in 50 million, this two-tone lobster was spared the dinner plate, now destined for an aquarium instead. Video.
Warner Bros is releasing a series of 20 DVDs in Australia featuring their iconic character 'Taz' being rescued by a variety of critters from the Looney Tunes gang.
The Persian Leopard is functionally extinct in the wild in Russia, with only a few individuals left. WWF will be reintroducing Persian Leopards into the wild, together with prey species deer populations. The project is one of the first which is predominantly sponsored by Russian businesses.
Victoria's Dingo Care Network is urging farmers to support the push for listing the dingo as a protected species ... "this is the situation that existed in Tasmania in the 1930s - by the time people began to realise they were at risk of losing the thylacine the animal was still being actively hunted to extinction"
Indonesian fisherman Yustinus Lahama and his son have caught a 4 foot coelacanth off the north coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The fish survived for 17 hours - well beyond its expected 2 hour lifespan at the surface of the ocean.
It has taken two years, but finally seven eggs have hatched, with several more to follow. Wikipedia notes that numbers for the Egyptian tortoise have plummeted from 55,624 tortoises three generations ago, to about 7,470 in the wild today. The species is considered difficult to keep in captivity.
Lonesome George is a giant Galapagos tortoise (Geochelone abingdoni) collected from the isolated island of Pinta in 1972 - the last of his kind. Through modern genetic analysis of all 11 extant Galapagos tortoise species, researchers have discovered a first generation hybrid descendant of his kind, but in a G. becki population.
The latest tome in the library of cryptozoology has been released, edited by Craig Heinselman and featuring an article on rare carnivorous marsupials by yours truly.