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2 days ago · Amur Leopard. The Amur Leopard is critically endangered, with just over 100 individuals left in the wild, primarily due to habitat loss, poaching, and climate change. This solitary and nocturnal ...
3 days ago · Declines in the numbers of terrestrial and aquatic genera at times of extinction events. An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms.
1 day ago · Every state has its hallmark writers. Mississippi has William Faulkner and his incomparable (fictional) Yoknapatawpha County and Missouri can lay claim to Mark Twain.
5 days ago · The queen snake, last verified as present in the state in 1977, or 47 years ago, is listed as endangered by the state, and many believed it extirpated, meaning it was thought to no longer exist in ...
5 days ago · Endangered Species Act, U.S. federal law passed in 1973 that obligates federal and state governments to protect all species threatened with extinction that fall within the borders of the United States and its outlying territories. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) of the Department of the Interior and the National Oceanic and ...
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2 days ago · Plot In 3000 AD, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler lives in the Rocky Mountains with a band of cave-dwellers who fear the "demons" that rule Earth. Skeptical of these stories, he rides into the lowlands, where two hunters show him a desolate and overgrown city. While exploring it, he is captured by the demons, a cruel alien species called Psychlos, and taken as a slave to a base in the ruins of Denver. The ...
4 days ago · Critically Endangered: 233 species (extreme risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) Endangered: 405 species (very high risk of extinction in the wild) Vulnerable: 717 species (also at risk of extinction in the wild unless the unfavorable circumstances and trends change).
