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In a small section of Kern County, outside the city of Bakersfield, a dirt ridge rises above the farmland. It’s home to a couple of cell towers, an orchard, and a creature that we didn’t know was there up until the last 25 years. In fact, it’s by chance that …

Victoria, a southern white rhino at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, is pregnant. It’s an event of vital importance for a program to bring back her nearly extinct kin, … Click to Continue »

The delta smelt may become extinct very soon a UC Davis fish biologist says the latest state survey found very few fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta where they normally gather. The biologist says the smelt have been on the decline for the last 30 years, but the drought may …