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(AFP/File) - A man holds an egg from an extinct elephant bird. In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)
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(AFP/File) - A Mexican student attends her class wearing a surgical mask in Mexico City in 2009. Mexican officials said Wednesday they have confirmed the first mutation of the A(H1N1) flu virus in a girl who survived the infection.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)
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(AFP/File) - A Tufted Puffin looks at visitors in his cage in San Diego's Sea World. Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)
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(AFP/File) - A worker is pictured preparing to feed Siberian tigers with chickens at the world's largest Siberian tigers park in Harbin, northeastern China's Heilongjiang province. Eleven Siberian tigers have starved to death over the past three months at a zoo in Shenyang, after the cash-strapped animal park fed them cheap chicken bones, according to state media.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)
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(AP) - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar speaks during a news conference for the 2010 'State of the Birds Report' at the Zilker Botanical Gardens in Austin, Texas on Thursday, March 11, 2010. The Interior Department report says global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution. (AP Photo/Thao Nguyen)
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(AP) - Glenn Olson of the National Audubon O’Brien Bird Conservation Chair speaks during a news conference for the 2010 'State of the Birds Report' at the Zilker Botanical Gardens in Austin, Texas on Thursday, March 11, 2010. The Interior Department report says global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution. (AP Photo/Thao Nguyen)
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