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      10 Animals That May Go Extinct in the Next 10 Years

      The Dodo may soon have some august company

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      • Leatherback Turtle Dermochelys coriacea Leatherbacks are the largest of all sea turtles, measuring as long as eight feet and weighing as much as 2,000 pounds. They are also the deepest divers, plunging to depths as great as 1,200 meters as they hunt for jellyfish... © iStockphoto/Andrea Gingerich
      • Pied Tamarin Saguinus bicolor Often called the "bare-faced tamarin" for its hairless face and ears, the pied tamarin inhabits only a small area of land surrounding Manaus, a city of two million in northwestern Brazil... Peter Dollinger, Mulhouse Zoo (France)
      • Black Rhinoceros Diceros bicornis Black rhinos, like their larger white cousins, are actually grayish in color. Their horns are highly valued for use as ornaments and for their "medicinal" properties, even though they are simply made of keratin, the same protein found in fingernails and hair... © iStockphoto/Mark Weiss
      • Chinese Alligator Alligator sinensis This secretive mini-alligator, which rarely grows longer than two meters or heavier than 40 kilograms, dwells in the wetlands of the lower reaches of the Yangtze—the same river that sheltered the rare and probably now extinct Chinese river dolphin... © iStockphoto/Matt Matthews
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      • Seychelles Sheath-Tailed Bat Coleura seychellensis There may be only 50 to 100 of these furry flying mammals left on the planet. They are endemic to Silhouette, Mahé, Praslin and La Digue, islands in the Seychelles archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar... Justin Gerlach, Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles
      • Dama Gazelle Gazella dama This antelope species is on a fast track to extinction. In the last decade, some 80 percent of the wild population vanished, primarily the result of unbridled hunting and habitat destruction... © WWF-Canon/Michel Gunther
      • Wild Bactrian Camel Camelus bactrianus This shy ancestor of domesticated camels lives in the arid Gashun Gobi region of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia. Unlike Arabian camels, which are distinguished by one prominent hump, Bactrian camels have two humps... © iStockphoto/David Kerkhoff
      • Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus krefftii Wombats are Australian marsupials with burly builds, stocky legs and powerful claws for burrowing underground tunnels. The northern hairy-nosed variety is the largest wombat, growing as long as one meter and as heavy as 40 kilograms... EPA, Queensland-2007
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      • Sumatran Orangutan Pongo abelii There are no more than 7,500 Sumatran orangutans left in the world, and they are declining at a rate of roughly 1,000 per year, says Adam Tomasek, director of the World Wildlife Fund's Borneo and Sumatra Program... © WWF-Canon/Peter Hofland
      • Iberian Lynx Lynx pardinus The world's most endangered cat species, the Iberian lynx once thrived in Spain, Portugal and southern France. Today, its numbers have dwindled to some 120 individuals divided between small populations in Spain's Andalusia region... © WWF-Spain/Jesús Cobo
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      • Leatherback Turtle <i>Dermochelys coriacea</i>
      • Pied Tamarin <i>Saguinus bicolor</i>
      • Black Rhinoceros <i>Diceros bicornis</i>
      • Chinese Alligator <i>Alligator sinensis</i>
      • Seychelles Sheath-Tailed Bat <i>Coleura seychellensis</i>
      • Dama Gazelle <i>Gazella dama</i>
      • Wild Bactrian Camel <i>Camelus bactrianus</i>
      • Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat <i>Lasiorhinus krefftii</i>
      • Sumatran Orangutan <i>Pongo abelii</i>
      • Iberian Lynx <i>Lynx pardinus</i>
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