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6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction
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Aurochs skeleton Illustration of a dodo bird, Raphus cucullatus, showing a large, flightless bird with a robust body, thick legs, and a hooked beak, with a size scale indicating a height of about 40 centimeters. An illustration of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) swimming and feeding on kelp near the shore, with two people in traditional clothing observing from a wooden boat above the water. Passenger pigeon Aurochs Great auks Replica of a woolly mammoth with long curved tusks and shaggy fur on display in a museum exhibit, set against a dramatic painted landscape backdrop.

6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction: References & Edit History

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  • Melissa Petruzzello
    Melissa Petruzzello (she/her) is Assistant Managing Editor and covers plants, algae, fungi, insects, spiders, renewable energy and environmental engineering. She also handles certain topics in Christianity, notably Protestant history and churches. 

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