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Rare footage of an Eastern black rhinoceros [ Diceros bicornis michaeli ] and her calf, taken in the 1950s in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. The rhino, known as “Gertie”, had a horn that measured nearly 4ft in length before breaking off naturally sometime in the 1960s, possibly during a fight with another rhino.

The demand for rhinoceros horn has made sights such as this exceedingly rare. As of 1992, only 2 rhinos were left in Amboseli National Park, where the animal is now considered locally extinct, while the subspecies as a whole is listed as critically endangered.

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Wet specimen of a baiji calf (Lipotes vexillifer).

The gestation period for this species lasted 10-11 months. Calves measured around 80–90 centimetres (31–35 in) at birth, and nursed for 8–20 months. [x]

White-footed fox, a subspecies of the red fox, at the London Zoo By: Unknown photographer From: London Zoo: A Series of Fifty Real Photograps 1920s

About Fish: A Guide for Children, written by Cathryn Sill and illustrated by John Sill, 2005.

Me when the seal is Baikal

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First art of the year (that isn't a muscle guy)

I love the granulation effect added to the software, it gives it that rough unpredictable look that I like so much.

De-extinction Company Aims to Resurrect the Tasmanian Tiger

The scientists who want to bring back mammoths now hope to revive the marsupial carnivore thylacine

The thylacine has long been an icon of human-caused extinction. In the 1800s and early 1900s, European colonizers in Tasmania wrongly blamed the dog-sized, tiger-striped, carnivorous marsupial for killing their sheep and chickens. The settlers slaughtered thylacines by the thousands, exchanging the animals’ skins for a government bounty. The last known thylacine spent its days pacing a zoo cage in Hobart, Tasmania, and died of neglect in 1936.

Now the wolflike creature—also known as the Tasmanian tiger—is poised to become an emblem of de-extinction, an initiative that seeks to create new versions of lost species. Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based de-extinction company that made headlines last September when it revealed that it planned to bring back the woolly mammoth, announced today that its second project will be resurrecting the thylacine.

Australian scientists have been hoping since 1999 to use emerging genetic technologies to try to bring the thylacine back from the dead. When the species went extinct, Tasmania lost its top predator. In theory, reintroducing proxy thylacines could help restore balance to Tasmania’s remaining forests by picking off sick or weak animals and controlling overabundant herbivores such as wallabies and kangaroos, some researchers say. But early attempts at cloning the animal from museum specimens’ DNA failed, and the effort has not attracted significant funding—until this year.

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