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...years they were so rare that many naturalists gave them up as extinct, but a few survived in the remote Aleutians...
...reached the barrio at 6:35 a.m. If I failed to return by 9 a.m., the troops would blow the place to smithereens. Taruc was waiting at the foot of Mt. Arayat, an extinct volcano. His lean figure was surrounded by the people of the barrio; like them, he wore a grey peasant shirt, brown pants and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The only question I asked was: "Do you accept the President's terms?" Taruc said: "I accept." He shook my hands warmly and said farewell to the barrio folk, many of them weeping. Minutes later we were...
Winning Devil. Coorinna, unlike Bandoola, poses as a novel, but is really a straight bit of nature reporting by Erie Wilson, a "volunteer ranger under the New South Wales Fauna Protection Panel." His hero, Coorinna, is a rare breed of marsupial wolf, now nearly extinct. The life and times of Coorinna are largely a matter of fighting to eat and eating to fight. A sly and winning devil, Coorinna meets a violent end, but not before Author Wilson can treat him and the reader to such exotic Australian fauna and flora as striped bandicoots, ti trees and brush-tongued lorikeets...
...Britain was behind. Fighting for the Empire, he had lost an eye; his son had lost a hand in World War II. The son died last week unmarried and childless-the last of the Wavell line. The title, which the major was only the second to hold, is now extinct...
...human, was recently found by Keith Jolly of the University of Cape Town and described by Professor M. R. Drennan in Britain's Nature magazine. In a "blowout" (wind-eroded area) near Saldanha, 80 miles north of Cape Town, Jolly found the ground littered with the bones of extinct animals: mammoths, giant wart hogs and a primitive giraffe. Among the bones were 25 fragments that fitted together into a thick-walled, beetle-browed human skull...