“Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot,...”

“African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.”

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