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4 snow leopards spotted together on remote Pakistan mountain in rare footageAfter spotting pawprints for two weeks, a gamekeeper and photographer in Pakistan caught a rare glimpse of a family of four snow leopards.
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Wild animals that experience trauma are half as likely to survive, study findsNew research finds that marmots who experience adversity early in life have a lesser chance of survival.
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'The simplicity of life just hits you': Watch rare footage of critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla feeding her baby in the wildFilmmakers captured a mother eastern lowland gorilla nursing her infant for the PBS show "Silverback."
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Great white sharks split into 3 populations 200,000 years ago and never mixed again — except for one hybrid found in the Bermuda TriangleScientists found three distinct great-white-shark populations that congregate in different oceans and do not interbreed. Their separation may have implications for conservation.
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Nearly half a million 'invasive' owls, including their hybrid offspring, to be killed by USThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final proposal to kill around 450,000 invasive barred owls in the Northwest, in an attempt to save two native species.
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6 species that scientists got wrongThe definition of a species is surprisingly unsettled, and the classifications of some of the best-known animals have come under scrutiny.
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What defines a species? Inside the fierce debate that's rocking biology to its coreFeature The question of what defines a species has vexed scientists across the ages, particularly in conservation, where decisions require a firm understanding of biodiversity.
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Mystery 'random event' killed off Earth's last woolly mammoths in Siberia, study claimsWoolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island for 6,000 years after their mainland cousins had perished. A new genomic study has revealed that this final population likely died from a sudden, mysterious event.
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Japan plans to commercially hunt vulnerable fin whales, enraging conservationistsJapan has announced plans to add fin whales — the second-largest animal on Earth — to its list of commercial whaling species, which currently includes Bryde's, sei and minke whales.
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