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roboroller aka Shad Miles is a 24.96 year old boy, has been a member since February 2, 2007, has scored 984 submissions, giving an average score of 1.89.

Aug 20 '07 by roboroller

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RIP: Yangtze River Dolphin: 25 million years ago-2007

So, a report was just published a few days ago that pretty much offically declares the Yangtze River Dolphin extinct. This is kind of some bummer news. I remember reading about these guys in Douglas Adams' "Last Chance to See" a long time ago and thinking they were super cool animals and it was a shame what was happening to them and now they're saying that they're all gone.

The first aquatic mamal to go extinct in over 50 years and the first large mamal to become extinct due to human industry.

sad, sad stuff.

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take a few seconds of silence will ya?

margolove on Aug 20 '07 at 4:34pm

aw :(

so this is pretty official, yeah... I've been hearing about this for awhile but it's never been for sure.

What a pity. Apparently large portions of the Yangtze are basically just water running through a concrete river bed.

ekaj47 on Aug 20 '07 at 4:34pm

poor douglas adams is extinct too - silence! for them both

Tonteau on Aug 20 '07 at 4:35pm

Sad day, but hundres of species of insects become extinct every week. But don't you worry. A few more will turn up somewhere, they were probably sleeping when they last counted them.

margolove on Aug 20 '07 at 4:36pm

I hope I didn't step on the last of anything accidentally.

chelly on Aug 20 '07 at 4:38pm

obviously you didn't actually read the books

they left

not the same thing!

*silent anyhow*

margolove on Aug 20 '07 at 4:39pm

haha, yes. They were lucky in comparison to the rest of the earth :D

roboroller on Aug 20 '07 at 4:43pm

I suppose it is the natural order of the earth for everything to eventually become extinct, but it's a shame when we, the human race, actually force it upon things.

funny thing is, i'm not really a huge enviromentalist or anything but this made me really sad.

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