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Rare whale gathering sighted
Source: BBC Earth News By: Matt Walker
A large group of a rarely sighted, mysterious species of whale has been seen off the coast of Antarctica.
Approximately 60 Arnoux's beaked whales were seen and photographed frolicking on the surface in the Gerlache Strait. Few sightings of this enigmatic species are made in the wild, and even less in waters near to shore.
The sighting, of the largest group ever recorded, is also the first time this species of whale has been seen socialising at the water surface. Marine biologists have published details of the sighting in the ....
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One in five mammals threatened with extinction
Source: Times Online, By: Mark Henderson, Science Editor
A fifth of the world’s known mammals, a third of amphibians and reptiles and more than two thirds of plants are threatened with extinction, according to the latest “Red List” of endangered species.
Of the 5,490 mammal species that have been identified by scientists, 79 are extinct or extinct in the wild, 188 are critically endangered, 449 are endangered and 505 are classed as vulnerable, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said.
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annual Red List, published yesterday, also shows that 70 percent of identified plants, 35 percent of invertebrates, 37 percent of freshwater fish, 30 percent of amphibians, 28 percent of reptiles and 12 percent of birds are under threat. The survival of a total of 17,921 species is in jeopardy. "This year’s IUCN Red List makes for sobering reading,” Craig Hilton-Taylor, manager of the IUCN Red List Unit, said. “These results are just the tip of the iceberg ....
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