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The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
In 2017, a breeding programme was established to revive the subspecies through back breeding the hybrids to regain their genetic purity. [13] As of 2025, 400 Floreana giant tortoises have been hatched on Santa Cruz Island with plans to release them into the wild on Floreana Island following the successful removal of invasive species .
Eco-Challenge: The Expedition Race is a multi-day expedition length adventure race in which teams of four (five in the early years) competed. It originally aired on TV from April 1995 to April 2002.
This is a list of species that have landed on the Moon, only including landings in which the payload survived. This list currently contains 10 species. This list currently contains 10 species. Before 2019, only animals (in particular one species, Homo sapiens ) landed on the Moon; in January 2019, plants and fungi also landed on the Moon.
With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described —of which around 1 million are insects —but it has been estimated there are over 7 million ...
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]
Tardigrade anatomy [3]. Tardigrades have a short plump body with four pairs of hollow unjointed legs. Most range from 0.1 to 0.5 mm (0.004 to 0.02 in) in length, although the largest species may reach 1.3 mm (0.051 in).
or little earth hutia Mesocapromys sanfelipensis Varona & Garrido, 1970: Rodentia: 1978 1: Cuba One-striped opossum: Monodelphis unistriata Wagner, 1842: Didelphimorphia: 1899 1: Gloomy tube-nosed bat: Murina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970: Chiroptera: 1962 1: Tsushima Island and possibly Yaku Island, Japan New Zealand greater short-tailed bat ...