PHOTOS: Parachute Spider, New Shrew on 2008 "Red List"

Monday, October 6, 2008 - 16:21 in Biology & Nature

Roughly 38 percent of the world's known species are near extinction, according to a comprehensive survey done to create the 2008 Red List of Threatened Species.

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