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New animals and plants are being lost to extinction every year—more than 160 species disappeared just in the past decade.
New animals and plants are being lost to extinction every year—more than 160 species disappeared just in the past decade.
Japanese zookeepers have finally figured out how Momo, their 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, got pregnant even though she lived by herself and had never had a male visitor. The key? A literal hole in the wall.
More than a third of animal and plant species in the U.S. could go extinct while more than 40% of ecosystems are at risk of collapse, a new report from a conservation group has found.