But as they are also one species of the animal kingdom, they cannot be completely wiped out.

作为动物界的物种，它又不能被完全消灭。

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Remember that the ranges of many animal species were different back then, so all these animals actually lived in the region at that time.

记住，当时许多动物物种的活动范围是不同的，所以所有这些动物实际上都生活在那个地区。

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He explains that the disappearance of one animal can have serious consequence to remaining species in that habitat.

他解释说，一种动物的消失可能会对该栖息地的其他物种造成严重的后果。

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As a result,the report says, the rate of plant and animal species disappearing is continuing faster than ever before.

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The animal represents the last species of a kind of deep-water clam.

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Scientists warn that without an agreement to reduce so-called green house gas emissions, global temperatures will continue to rise, with the catastrophic consequences of extreme weather events, the spread of drought and disease, and the extinction of plant and animal species.

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The aim is to ensure that scientific knowledge about the very rapid disappearance of a great number of vegetable and animal species and the erosion of ecosystems leads to concrete measures.

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These are recognisable types of footprint that cannot be matched precisely with the species of animal that left them.

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