How machine learning could help save threatened species from extinction

A male killer whale breaching in the Icy Strait, southeast Alaska. | Photo by: Francois Gohier/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

There are thousands of species on Earth that we still don’t know much about — but we now know that they are already teetering on the edge of extinction. A new study used machine learning to figure out just how threatened these lesser-known species are, and the results were grim.

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