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Top 10 Extinct Species

 
Species go away forever for a lot of different reasons: ice ages, catastrophic meteor collisions ... and, of course, there's the persistent threat of one particular predatory, parasitic, highly adaptable species: Homo sapiens (that would be you and me).

We didn't do all these species in, but we've certainly had a hand in some of their demises.

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