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How to create an auroch

Beth Shapiro
Mammoth reproductions in the visitors' center Ark Nebra in Nebra, Germany, March 29, 2012. (AP/Jens Meyer)

De-extinction? It's real

Lindsay Abrams
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When humans go extinct

Lindsay Abrams
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And then there were five

Lindsay Abrams
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Sarah Gray
(AP/NASA)

Sarah Gray
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Annemarie Dooling
Artist Daniel Richter in "Expedition to the End of the World"

A spectacular trip to doomsday

Andrew O'Hehir
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Extinction was just bad timing

Joanna Rothkopf
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Lindsay Abrams
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CNN's asteroid disaster

Andrew Leonard
This undated photograph shows one of the 14 new species of so-called dancing frogs discovered by a team headed by University of Delhi professor Sathyabhama Das Biju in the jungle mountains of southern India. The study listing the new species brings the number of known Indian dancing frogs to 24 and attempts the first near-complete taxonomic sampling of the single-genus family found exclusively in southern India's lush mountain range called the Western Ghats, which stretches 1,600 kilometers (990 miles) from the west state of Maharashtra down to the country's southern tip. (AP Photo/Satyabhama Das Biju) (AP)

Lindsay Abrams

Jason Bittel
Elizabeth Kolbert (MacMillan Publishers/Barry Goldstein)

Our growing extinction crisis

Lindsay Abrams
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Erin Conway-Smith - GlobalPost
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Richard Schiffman - Alternet
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Lindsay Abrams
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Colin Lecher - Popular Science
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Baindu Kallon - GlobalPost
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The brink of collapse

Lindsay Abrams
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"Jurassic "Park," ready or not

M.R. O'Connor
Artist's rendering of the extinct Megatherium (The Wonderful Paleo Art of Heinrich Harder)

Lindsay Abrams
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