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Division in April 2023/04/09. Photo credit: New England Aquarium

Division’s final journey

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Feb 2026

Christmas Island shrew

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025

Vatsala, Asia’s oldest known elephant, died on July 8th, 2025, aged around 100

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2025

Kanzi, the bonobo, died aged 44 in March 2025. Image ©️Ape Initiative.

Kanzi the bonobo redefined what it means to be human

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Apr 2025

Bramble Cay melomys. Photo by Queensland Government

Bramble Cay Melomys: requiem for a small brown rat

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2019

Climate change claims a snail

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2007

A critically endangered baiji dolphin. Image by Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Wikimedia Commons.

A farewell to the Yangtze’s ghost, the Baiji

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Dec 2006

Goodbye to the Baiji

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2006

Bufo periglenes. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Golden Toad: Elegy for a jewel of the cloud forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2005

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