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Dodo?

Babes Says @BabeSays (8795) • Mauritius 9 Jun 23

The dodo bird was a flightless bird native to Mauritius that went extinct in the 17th century. It had a large, plump body, small wings, and a rounded beak. The dodo's inability to fly and its lack of fear towards humans made it...

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Why are we wasting time on space exploration?

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 20 Dec 22

Why are we (humans) wasting time and resources on space exploration, looking particularly for signs of life in the solar system and elsewhere in the galaxy, when we can’t even look after life on this planet? I keep hearing about...

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Quality Against Quantity

Kandase @Kandae11 (57233) 5 May 22

When last did you visit a dressmaker or a tailor? Back in the day the services provided by those establishments were in great demand. Not so now -- as a matter of fact, most of the dressmakers and tailors l know have resorted to...

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Who wants it back?

Toni @toniganzon (77064) • Philippines 8 Oct 21

A few days ago I read an article that scientists are trying to bring back the woolly mammoth, a giant creature which is the ancestor of the asian elephant. Seems like Jurassic Park is now going to become a reality but instead of...

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Are pandas good pet animals?

Kitycat @KityCat (7739) • India 11 Mar 20

Panda is one of the cutest. Wouldn't you agree? They are herbivores which is a really good thing even though their body structure is like a carnivore. I have never seen anyone keep a panda for a pet. I think it is one of the...

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Jobs That No Longer Exist Today- Volume 1

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 23 Jan 19

Here is a series on interesting/strange occupations gone due to societal and technological changes. We all know switchboard operators have been replaced, but did you know about these jobs? Read on... Glad these 2 jobs are no...

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Protect our Animals

Azzej Bandi @JaxBiebs (170) • Cebu, Philippines 20 Dec 18

Don't wait for the time that they will be all gone And cannot be seen by our future generation. Protect them like how you protect your love ones. They are also crated by God No reason that you will abandon or hurt them Some are...

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Loss of the Passenger Pigeon

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (97912) • Daytona Beach, Florida 7 Jul 18

Another bird that bit the dust a long time ago was known as the passenger pigeon. It was in the early 1800s that you could see flocks of these birds and in these flocks were a billion individual passenger pigeons. If the flock was...

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Megalodon Shark is it real?

Noel Angeles @Kakashi20 (670) • Philippines 24 Feb 18

In recent years there's a lot of speculation that the Megalodon Shark a shark that was thought to be extinct may still be living in the depths of our oceans. It is supposed to be 90 feet long and 3X the lenght of the longest...

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The Hometown Newspaper has sold

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 28 Jan 18

As of March 1, the Eugene Register-Guard newspaper will be taken over by Gatehouse Media, who owns (I think) about a hundred or more publications nationwide. Our local R-G was family owned for 91 years by the Baker family and is,...

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Freeways A Death Sentence For Mountain Lions

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 4 May 17

The freeways of 101, 118 and 405 in Los Angeles have been the death scene for seventeen mountain lions since tracking began in 2002. Their territory is also very limited and these L.A. cats have the lowest genetic diversity ever...

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What are the things do you think will not be known to those who will take birth after 2050?

Kevin @excellence7 (3698) • Mauritius 16 Aug 16

I'm quite curious. Many things are disappearing, that is, they are no longer in use and are not being produced anymore. They are thus becoming extinct, for example typewriters. Lesser and lesser people are using...

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Stamp might go Dodo

Inlemay @Inlemay (17712) • South Africa 17 Jun 16

@Asylum was giving us a run through the change in postage possibilities he has encountered in his post "The gradual demise of the humble postage stamp" , which is quite sad because will the Postage Stamp eventually become extinct...

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Will hockey fights be a thing of the past?

Josh Lake @jrlake2414 (27) 26 Apr 16

I grew up a fan of an orginal 6 team. Hockey was one of the most popular sports in America when I started watching. One of the biggest things that made hockey stand out from the rest other was that fighting was allowed. I am...

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What are you doing for the Nature?

manohar lal @manohar282 (88) 19 Apr 16

Nature gives us all the resources we need, still we are exploiting and degrading it thinking it would continue to take care of us forever. But we have forgotten that we could also get extinct from this planet someday, same as...

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3.5 million year old arctic camel fossil found in Canada!

Catkin @Catkin (480) • United States 7 Mar 13

I learned today about a neat find up on Ellesmere Island, in Canada: fossil fragments of an extinct arctic camel! Judging from the bones found, it's being reported that this cold-weather camel would have stood a third taller than...

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If mosquitoes become extinct...

lady Di @lady1993 (27221) • Philippines 2 Aug 12

what do you think will happen.. I read somewhere that they are the most dangerous creature in the entire planet, since they carry lots of diseases which can be deadly. But they say that if any animal becomes extinct, it will do...

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Have You Ever Heard Of This Animal?

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 24 May 12

Have you ever heard of this animal or seen it before? I happen to come across it by accident today, I have never seen such an animal before. At first thought it was photoshopped this way. Turns out it is not. Despite the name, the...

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Sumerian culture? Annunaki? WOW

Dasjagd @Dasjagd (8) • United States 15 May 12

Hey everybody just going to come out directly and say that I recently tried to find about some of the history of the Sumerian culture, I got into it because I was told that these people just dropped off of the face of the earth...

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Civilized population.

Lore2009 @Lore2009 (7378) • United States 19 Aug 11

Just a silly question, don't take it seriously. But if we were not 'civilized' how many children do you think a person would have in their life? If we were not 'civilized' do you think humans would be extinct by now for killing...

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