Plenty of poets wrote them, but the most famous of all is John Milton's  Lycidas . Like all typical pastoral elegies, Milton mourns the loss of his best bud (who died in a shipwreck). But he also compares him to a shepherd and describes the ways in which nature mourns his loss, too.
The Banff longnose dace, a small minnow, was recently declared extinct. It failed to compete with the guppies, swordtails, sailfin mollies and other tropical fish that had been released in the warm marsh below the famous hot springs by tourists and national park officials.
The Yangtze River, the longest river in Asia, used to be one of the only two rivers in the world that was home to two different species of dolphinâthe Yangtze finless porpoise and the Baiji dolphin.However, in 2006 the Baiji dolphin was declared functionally extinct.his was the first time in history that an entire species of dolphin had been wiped off the planet because of human activity. Its close cousin, the Yangtze finless porpoise, is known for its mischievous smile and has a level of intelligence comparable to that of a gorilla. 1  Share on Facebook. 2  Tweet on Twitter.