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Extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass wipeouts
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | about 12 hours ago
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For many years, paleobiological researchers interested in the history of biodiversity have focused on charting the many ups (evolutionary radiations) and downs (mass extinctions) that punctuate the history of life. Because the preserved record of marine...
Tags: mass extinctions, Arnie Miller, extinctions rates, ocean settings, Michael Foote, epicontinental sea, rates higher, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Impact events, Biology, Permian￢ﾀﾓTriassic extinction event, Extinction, Permian, Extinction events, Planetary science, Evolutionary biology, Environment
CAMBODIA: Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | 1 day ago
Credibility Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct...
Tags: siamese crocodiles, Adam Starr, Cambodian, breeding programme, Nhek Ratanapech, purebred siamese, critically endangered, Cambodia, Phnom Pénh, Siamese, Purebred, Extinction, Morelet's Crocodile, Crocodiles, Crocodylidae, Alligator farm, Environment
Mammoths not killed by human spears
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility A study published in the journal Science shows that woolly mammoths started to die out nearly 2,000 years before complex spears were invented. Fifteen-thousand years ago, large mammals dominated the North American landscape...The director of the University...
Tags: woolly mammoths, Australia, Sydney, Extinction, Quaternary extinction event, Pleistocene extinctions, Woolly mammoth, Mammoth, Environment, Clovis culture, Stone Age, Megafauna, Mammal, Evolutionary biology, Impact event, Dinosaur, Planetary science, Pleistocene, Canidae, Clovis California, Mastodon, Paleontology
Letters: Manipulating Nature (1 Letter)
New York :: NY :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Re “A Hunt for Seeds to Save Species, Perhaps by Helping Them Move” (Nov. 10): While I applaud the research efforts of scientists, I am deeply skeptical about the merits of assisted migration of plant species to new regions.
Tags: New York, Hobson, Entertainment Culture, Dreaming, Allan Hobson, Dream, Health Medical Pharma, Evolutionary biology, Ecosystem, Nature, Extinction, Systems ecology, Environmental science, Environment
EU study explores economic impact of 'great extinction'
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 5 days ago
Credibility Global policy makers could ultimately save more money if they step up investments to protect the Earth's biodiversity, according to a new report published on Friday (13 November). Current-day decisions to exploit areas of land and sea frequently ignore...
Tags: protects area, great extinction, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Deforestation, Extinction, Nature, Conservation biology, Environmental science, Biodiversity, Environmental economics, Environment
No room for healthy devils to avoid extinction
Sydney :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility Four years ago the State Government started sending healthy devils interstate as an insurance population. But the 'Noah's Ark' plan has collected fewer than 200 devils over the past four years. The State Government has been urged to find an island for...
Tags: healthy animal, healthy devils, collect healthy, insurance population, Australia, Sydney, Extinction, Devil, Tasmania, Scavengers, Tasmanian Devil, Maria Island, Health Medical Pharma
Wildlife star Jeff Corwin has animal magnetism
Marshfield :: MA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility L ocal conservationist turned TV star Jeff Corwin takes his animal-rescue message to the New England Aquarium this week with the release of a dramatic book and documentary on some of the world’s most endangered species. Corwin’s book, “100 Heartbeats:...
Tags: Jeff Corwin, star jeff, Marshfield, Tiger, Corwin, Endangered species, Wildlife, Extinction, Conservation, National symbols of India, Environment, Entertainment Culture
Catastrophe likely if rapid extinctions continue: UN
Sydney :: Australia | 8 days ago
Credibility In an interview with the Herald, the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Ahmed Djoghlaf, said the legally binding 2010 target to stop the decline in biodiversity would not be met...Biodiversity is the number and...
Tags: Dr Djoghlaf, Australia, Earth, Sydney, Sustainability, Ecology, Extinction, Ecosystem services, Biodiversity Action Plan, Biodiversity, Convention on Biological Diversity, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Environment
Why is maintaining our biological diversity taking a backseat to preserving the numbers of our national animal?
Mumbai :: India | 8 days ago
Credibility This includes the dark brown Pygmy Hog (a tiny pig now confined to Assam), Malabar Large-spotted Civet (a white-grey cat that once thrived in Kerala) and the Jenkin's Shrew (a mouse now rare in the Andamans). This makes India one of the ten countries...
Tags: India, diversity taking, national animal, biological diversity, Mumbai, Endangered species, Biodiversity, Conservation, Evolutionary biology, Extinction, Environment
US takes brown pelican off endangered species list
Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US officials said.One more excerpt:"The birds' recovery and removal from the...
Tags: pelican, brown pelican, species list, green, Pakistan, Lahore, DDT, Extinction, Megafauna, Endangered Species Act, Environment, Gaillard Island, Salazar, endangered species, Tom Strickland
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