Word: extinctions
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...late to do anything about the bill. The old bills are becoming extinct as soon as the evil "poacher" banks can get their hands on them. But there is hope that we can still save the future of the American currency: if we band together, we can save the ten, the five...
According to recent estimates by The Nature Conservancy, about one percent of America's land and animal species is now extinct, and about one-third are considered vulnerable, Wilson said...
DeVore was a little more reluctant to disclose the source of his "french envelopes." But upon being pressed, he revealed the root of his secrecy. His condoms are fashioned from "the appendix of a nearly extinct breed of sheep, now raised in only two remote villages in the Caucasus," which are gossamer-thin and known for their "great tensile strength...
...their own dining rooms. From the shore I watch a few of them do the backstroke while cracking clams open on their chests. They wrap themselves in leaves so as not to drift away while sleeping. First Russians, then Americans killed them for their fur, and they became almost extinct by the early 1900s. Declared endangered, they now number more than 2,000 along California's central coast. Earle tells me she once saw an otter opening clams with a Coke bottle...
Most beautiful and mysterious to me is the Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the vampire squid from hell. Its body is salmon colored, its eyes blue--no ordinary blue, but blue that defines the color, the first blue, the blue open eye of the sea. Once thought extinct, it can turn inside out, and hide in a cloak of itself. If one doubts the range of nature's imagination--or sense of humor--picture a Vampyroteuthis staring into a self-created darkness, 3,000 ft. below the surface, while nearer shore, an otter snacks...