In today's journal
Legal protection arrived two months before it stopped mattering, granted to a species already down to its final known member. Ninety years ago, that lone survivor lived out its last days in the same enclosure that had made it visible to the world, and no confirmed sighting of the species has followed since. It's a quiet case study in how recognition can arrive just after the moment it could still help.
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