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Cabinet 20 in the Trinity College Zoological Museum is not crammed with specimens, instead it contains only one, the Great Auk. This specimen, collected off Waterford in 1834, represents the last recorded sighting of this species in Ireland. It wasn’t …
We are living in the midst of a mass extinction event known as the Holocene extinction. In 2002, the prominent biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that half of all higher organisms could be gone by the year 2100. A 2014 study …