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Tuesday 28 November 2023 Dublin: 3°C

# Extinct

This year
2023
150 years after they became extinct in Ireland, ospreys to be reintroduced this summer
Ospreys are a fish-eating bird of prey that went extinct in Ireland 150 years ago but are being reintroduced with the assistance of Norway.
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May 23rd 2023, 2:08 PM
All time
Fish brought back from extinction with help from UK zoo
More than 1,500 tequila fish have now been returned to the Teuchitlan River, south-west Mexico.
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Dec 29th 2021, 2:14 PM
Komodo dragon and two in five shark species in danger of becoming extinct
About 28% of the 138,000 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature are now at risk of vanishing.
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Sep 4th 2021, 3:45 PM
'Maternity leave' compensation system could help increase elephant population
New research shows how the increase in elephants’ workloads has affected their reproduction.
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Nov 5th 2017, 10:00 AM
Doomsday in Dublin: The impending apocalypse and what we can do to stop it
The Dublin Science Gallery’s “Collapse” exhibition will ask us some important questions in late-2017.
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Jan 3rd 2017, 1:00 PM
Over 100 native Irish plants are endangered, including these well-known favourites
Twenty vascular plants (or 1.7% of those assessed) are critically endangered, 25 (2.1%) are endangered and 61 (5.0%) are vulnerable.
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Dec 9th 2016, 4:29 PM
Humans and these very ugly unicorns once walked the earth together
To be fair, the Elasmotherium sibiricum was probably a bit more rhino.
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Mar 31st 2016, 6:04 AM
10 animals that were hunted to extinction
It has emerged that the Tasmanian tiger – the last of which died in 1936 – was wiped out by human actions rather than an unknown disease.
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Feb 10th 2013, 9:15 AM
Well-preserved mammoth may hold new clues about early man’s hunting habits
A 10,000-year-old mammoth found in Siberia could shed new light on ancient human behaviour, say scientists.
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Apr 4th 2012, 12:31 PM
Extinct 'giant penguin' species reconstructed from fossils
Bones of the ‘Kairuku’, extinct for about 26 million years, were discovered in New Zealand 35 years ago.
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Feb 29th 2012, 1:25 PM
Western black rhino declared extinct
Other subspecies of rhino also face extinction due to commercial poaching and threats from international crime groups targeting rhinos for their horns.
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Nov 10th 2011, 11:08 AM
Polar bear ancestry traced back to... Ireland?
Yep. Scientist have linked modern polar bears with ancient Irish brown bears.
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Jul 7th 2011, 10:25 PM
Extinction of ocean life is ‘speeding up’
Different environmental factors are combining to accelerate the process of extinction in the oceans.
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Jun 21st 2011, 8:21 PM
American wildcat declared extinct
Wildlife biologists announced today that there are no longer any wild populations of mountain lions in the eastern United States.
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Mar 2nd 2011, 3:16 PM