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It's Official: Caribbean Monk Seal Is Extinct


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"After five years of futile efforts to find or confirm sightings of any Caribbean monk seals

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They said the same thing about the cylocanth. Then they found it off the coast of Africa, local fishermen said they had been fishing them for generations.

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Species go extinct all the time. Still I always regret not seeing them when I read about it...........

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I wonder what is distinctive about the Caribbean Monk Seal that separates it from other seals. How do they know that this particular species hasn't just relocated. It seem s to be a common occurrence :24: these days.

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