Although overhunting led to the demise of some prehistoric megafauna after the last ice age, a new study found that the extinction of the woolly rhinoceros may have been caused …read more Source:: Science
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Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals?
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•Based on research at White Pond near Elgin, South Carolina, archaeologists present new evidence of a controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago …read more Source:: Science
Joshua trees facing extinction
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•They outlived mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. But without dramatic action to reduce climate change, new research shows Joshua trees won’t survive much past this century. …read more Source:: Science
Global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction
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•A recent study highlights the fact that the economic benefits of commodity export for primate habitat countries has been limited relative to the extreme environmental costs of pollution, habitat degradation, …read more Source:: Science
Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’
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•Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns …read more Source:: Science
More animal species under threat of extinction, new method shows
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•Currently approximately 600 species might be inaccurately assessed as non-threatened on the Red List of Threatened Species. More than a hundred others that couldn’t be assessed before, also appear to …read more Source:: Science
When the dinosaurs died, so did forests — and tree-dwelling birds
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•Sixty-six million years ago, the world burned. An asteroid crashed to Earth with a force one million times larger than the largest atomic bomb, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. …read more Source:: Science
Giant Chinese salamander is at least five distinct species, all heading toward extinction
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•With individuals weighing in at more than 140 pounds, the critically endangered Chinese giant salamander is well known as the world’s largest amphibian. But researchers now find that those giant …read more Source:: Science
New driver of extinction: Adaptations for sexual selection
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•By analyzing thousands of fossilized ancient crustaceans, a team of scientists found that devoting a lot of energy to the competition for mates may compromise species’ resilience to change and …read more Source:: Science
Life goes on for marine ecosystems after cataclysmic mass extinction
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•One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found. …read more Source:: Science