5 mysterious animals thought to be extinct… but are they?
5 mysterious animals thought to be extinct… but are they?
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Woolly Mammoth
“Consensus dating of mammoth remains from Wrangel Island”. Radiocarbon, North America. March 2006. http://bit.ly/ZPfW8Y
Thylacine ( Tasmanian Tiger ):
“Tasmania’s Threatened Fauna Handbook”. Threatened Species Unit, Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania. 1999. http://bit.ly/144wqKg
“Thylacines”. Grant Museum of Zoology. April 2012. http://bit.ly/11FrXvn
Passenger Pigeon
“The Passenger Pigeon”. Encyclopedia Smithsonian. Smithsonian Institution. March 2001. http://bit.ly/ZPi8xw
“Cloning: Can it resurrect extinct species?”. BBC News. February 2012. http://bit.ly/17MuICD
Honshu Wolf
“Man continues 40-year search for extinct Japanese wolf”. The Asahi Shimbum. January 2013. http://bit.ly/11N1Tl2
Mokele-mbembe
“The hunt for Mokele-mbembe: Congo’s Loch Ness Monster”. BBC News Magazine. December 2011. http://bbc.in/11lhEwI