Endangered Tattoos: Volunteers Get Inked to Help Save Species [Slide Show]
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STEPHEN MEDEEMA, NARROW-LEAVED HELLEBORINE This orchid can grow to 60 centimeters (two feet) tall and support up to 20 white-and-yellow flowers. Photo by Anatomy Project
KELLY PARISH, TALL THRIFT Two nature reserves near Ancaster, England, aim to bring this flowering plant back. Photo by Anatomy Project
CALI LELLIOTT, SAND LIZARD: This brown lizard is now limited to living on sand dunes along England’s northwestern coast. Photo by Tom Bing
STUART BARNS, STRIPED DOLPHIN: This marine mammal sports blue and white stripes on its flanks, and is a member of a toothless whale family. Photo by Tom Bing
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SALLY MCGEE, RAMPION BELLFLOWER: Rapunzel, locked away in a tower in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, was named after this purple plant’s scientific moniker: Campanula rapunculus. Photo by Tom Bing
CHRISTOPHER DAVIES, NORFOLK HAWKER DRAGONFLY: The brown insect has clear wings and a yellow triangle on its abdomen and is found only in a few unpolluted marshes. Photo by Tom Bing
VICTORIA TURNBULL, CHAMOMILE: This plant is a disappearing variety of the type commonly used in herbal tea. Photo by Tom Bing
HUW SPANNER, WHITE TAILED EAGLE: A close cousin of the bald eagle, this raptor lives in Europe and Asia and has a wing span of more than two meters. Photo by Andrew Firth
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