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A round-the-world detective story about rediscovering vanished species.
Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. It is, scientists say, the worst global extinction crisis in the last sixty-five million years -- the... read more
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“Why all the fuss over a dull little bird? Like a relative who isn't appreciated until she's gone, many creatures that were ignored, even vilified, in life become icons in the grand death of extinction.”
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The overnight rain had stopped, leaving the forest heavy with moisture and the trail slick with mud.
Table of Contents edit
1. The Ghost with Trembling Wings
2. Proving a Negative
3. Chance and Calculation
4. The Noble Living
5. The ABC's of Ghost Cats
6. Cruising the Crypto-fringe
7. The Brothers and the Bull
8. Test-tube Babies
9. The Tiger That Isn't
10. Sweat Bees Ate Our Earwax
Notes and Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Scott Weidensaul (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 591.68
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