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Art

Portraits: American Animals Near Extinction

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Everyone likes animals. At least, we like looking at pictures of them. In a new book from National Geographic photographer Joe Sartore, Rare: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species, the nation’s most vulnerable plants and animals are put on display (69 of them, to be exact). The book is a collection from Sartore’s 20 years traveling across the country, capturing photographs of creatures disappearing from America’s landscape. It’s worth noting that one of the featured animals — the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit — actually went extinct while the book was being made.

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Design

Affordable Art: Josh Brill’s Extinct Editions

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You know what your apartment needs? Some Dodo Birds, Great Auks, Saber-Tooth Tigers, and Woolly Mammoths on its walls. Each of the limited-edition, signed Giclée prints in Josh Brill’s new Extinct Editions sells for $20, and 5 percent of the profits go to Animal and Environmental charities. If extinct species aren’t really your thing, he also has a plethora of cool living bird prints to choose from. They’re part of a the Main-based designer’s Flora Fauna collection, which is “a cataloging of the design identities of plants and animals from around the world.”

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