Now we are seeing similar extinction rates caused mainly by humans. A quarter of all of the 5,500 known mammals are threatened with extinction, and...
Irish Times · 12 hours ago
An essay published in this week’s JAMA calls this process “innovation to extinction.” To some extent, drug companies are already...
WSJ.com: Health Blog · 18 hours ago
And that's the point, driven home with a series of profiles of species on the brink of extinction and those "conservation heroes" trying to...
Yahoo! Green · Nov. 23, 2009
... a little increase in mortality over a longer time already it drives an orangutan population to extinction." The numbers of Sumatran orangutans...
CNN · Nov. 22, 2009
... and extinction records of marine organisms. 'Paleontologists now recognize that there were five particularly large, worldwide mass extinction...
NewKerala.com · Nov. 21, 2009  Explore story »
In the gung-ho days of the 1960s, when conservation was just getting into its stride, you could use the word extinction like a bugle. Extinction?
Times Online · Nov. 20, 2009
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... of Wisconsin, has uncovered a critical sequence of events that rules out some explanations for the extinction of the large animals and...
New York Times · Nov. 19, 2009  Explore story »
Paleontologists...
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"Paleontologists now recognize that there were five particularly large, worldwide mass extinction events during the history of life, known among the
ScienceDaily · Nov. 19, 2009  Explore story »
Paleontologists...
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... of Science with their paper, 'Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination.' For many years...
PhysOrg.com · Nov. 19, 2009  Explore story »
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In an extinction scenario that might have been concocted by Douglas Adams or a taxonomically-minded Kafka, a classification error has allowed
Wired · Nov. 18, 2009  Explore story »