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Oh man, they killed the only davemaoite we ever had, it's so sad
by kwonkicker 5y ago
Oh man, they killed the only davemaoite we ever had, it's so sad
- msrenee 5y agoBut now that they know where to look for it, I'm pretty sure they'll find more.
- cbozeman 5y agoBiologists do this as well. Once we encounter a new species, it's killed and then studied. This is called a 'voucher specimen'. Obviously it's possible to make a species extinct if you kill the only one of it's kind, and the necessity of voucher specimens is a topic of debate amongst field biologists.