'Lost shark' possibly extinct, dolphin threatened - Red List

ReutersPublished: Dec 11, 2020 12:40 AM | Updated: Dec 11, 2020 12:41 AM

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in trouble showed on Thursday.

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