Unhappy endlings: What tales of the last days of extinct and dying species can bring to our own story

[Mike Shanahan]

They are all now dead and can never be replaced but at least they got names. Martha, Benjamin and Incas… Booming Ben and Lonesome George. They wer endlings, each one the last known member of its species. Their names remind us that we have epic tales to tell of the decline and fall of entire species.

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