The passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction 99 years ago, but researchers are planning to use DNA from museum specimens to bring the bird back to life.
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A graduate student rediscovers a snail species officially declared extinct in 2000.
Decades can pass between the discovery of a new animal or plant and its official debut in the scientific literature.
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The rate of evolution is affected for millenia after mass extinctions.
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