How to know when a species becomes extinct

How do scientists know when to classify a species as extinct? Animals such as the Yangtze River Dolphin, the Christmas Island Shrew and the Venezuelan Skunk Frog are all extinct, or close to the brink of...

Skunk McCain?

McCain and Skunk???  I wish I really know what it was about more besides that it was mocking fun of McCain at the time before the election.  Anyways, now the election is over now, I really think he left even...

Stink Attack: Chemical Crowd Control

Apparently stank-powered crowd-control was developed a few years ago, but only recently was it put into real-world action. Isreali security forces brought the non-lethal fluid to bear on protestors at the Ni'in security fence on Friday. The mixture is less harmful than tear...

Government set to defy its own experts and upgrade cannabis again

The Labour government in the UK is set to do a U-turn on its Cannabis policy today, reclassifying the drug as a 'class B' offense after it had downgraded it to 'class C' in 2004 in order to free police to deal with more serious drug cases."The home secretary, Jacqui Smith,...

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