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No rhythm, no rhyme, no reason

~12000 BC            Sabre Tooth Tiger
~ 1650 BC             Mammoth
   1681                  Dodo
~ 1890                  Falkland Islands Wolf
   1918                  Carolina Parakeet
   1938                  Schomburgk's Deer
~ 1960                  Javan Tiger
   1973                  Tecopa Pupfish
   1975                  Round Island Burrowing Boa
   1979                  Dutch Alcon Blue Butterfly
   1994                  Golden Toad
   2000                  Pyrenean Ibex
   2002                  Baiji White Dolphin
   2004                  Black-faced Honeycreeper
   2006                  West African Black Rhino
   2015                  Pinta Island Tortoise
   20??                  *****Sapiens

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Ilene Bauer

Date: 4/17/2020 3:40:00 PM

well done, terry! i hope the powers-that-be didn't censor that last word...

Terry O'Leary
Date: 8/10/2021 1:33:00 PM

Well Ilene, it looks like they did censor the last line. For readers that get this far, the last line is supposed to be " 20?? H-o-m-o Sapiens " without the dashes, which I believe is the scientific name of humans...

Terry O'Leary
Date: 4/18/2020 6:27:00 PM

LOL! Yeah, I'm sure they would if they could... Thanks, Irene!!

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 4/17/2020 11:16:00 AM

This is the best! It somehow struck me as wonderful.

Terry O'Leary
Date: 4/18/2020 6:25:00 PM

Thank you... much appreciated!!!