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The contagious cancer that is decimating Tasmanian devils probably isn't being counted as a species, but the devils may soon go extinct anyway.
It is arrogant to assume no other species has eradicated another species, simply on the basis that nobody kept records of such developments.
Most species that ever existed are long gone. What wiped them out, mass suicide?
Posted by: SnarlyOldFart | April 3, 2007 1:11 PM
Is today National Troll Day or something? Why didn't someone tell me?
Posted by: Jeremy | April 3, 2007 1:22 PM