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...know this sounds stupid, but it really is important. After all, before you can call an animal extinct you have to know what it looks like. The thing people most often lament and use as an indicator of the decline in school spirit is the falling attendance at football games. You know what? They're right, attendance has fallen--but that's about all that they're right about. In the '50s, school spirit probably could be measured by how many of the cigar-smoking, coat-and-tie wearing, all-male Harvard preppies went to football games...
...decorate homes. The illegal killing of animals is a $200 million-a-year business, with as much as $100 million of that amount for medicinal purposes. The victims include not only the big carnivores and grazers, but also more than 100 other species, 20 of which could become extinct sometime in the next century if their depletion continues at the current pace, the Park Service warns. Four of them -- the hawksbill sea turtle, brown pelican, peregrine falcon, and Schaus' swallowtail butterfly -- are already endangered. "I remember seeing salmon so damn thick in the river you could have walked on them...
...helmet. The giant muntjac has large canine teeth that deerlike animals used in fights long ago, before they evolved elaborate antlers. All three animals have braincases that are relatively small in proportion to their size. Taxonomist Groves says the Vu Quang ox seems somewhat similar to the hemibos, an extinct creature that lived in India 5 million years...
...animals such as the tiger and sun bear. Human pressures have reduced the elephant population to as few as five animals, and the same fate could befall the species just uncovered. MacKinnon, disturbed by the connotations of the name slow-running deer, is worried that this animal may become extinct even before it is scientifically described...
...Nearly extinct bug gets one-year reprieve from lab scientists...