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Climate change correlated with other natural and man-made factors draws up a tough challenge for twenty three primates, representing all that is left of the once numerous Hainan gibbons (Nomascus hainanus) species. A recent study issued by Greenpeace indicates habitat loss is one of the powerful main elements pushi... |
5 December 2011
09:03 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen Center of GeoGenetics say that a new analysis of six large herbivore species revealed an interesting aspect of Earth's environment at the end of the last Ice Age – nature and man conspired to cause the demise of large herbivore animals.
This was established aft... |
3 November 2011
04:46 GMT |
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A detailed study has recently shown that past global warming events were tremendously harsh to slow-moving critters, as in species ranging from frogs to bats. All species that were unable to move from one climate zone to another fast enough were decimate.
From this point of view, each global warming event in Earth... |
7 October 2011
10:05 GMT |
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The Russian government has barred all oil-extracting companies seeking to conduct business in the Sakhalin Island from carrying out their activities when Western gray whales are present in the area. As such, any economic agency seeking to appropriate any of the newly-available concessions will have to respect this me... |
30 May 2011
10:47 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that the Neanderthal Man went extinct as much as 10,000 years earlier than experts previously calculated. The finding is based on a series of investigations in which researchers dated fossils belonging to this species directly. During the experim... |
12 May 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Researchers are currently investigating an interesting lead that may help explain why 40 percent of the world's amphibian species declined over the past 30 years alone. Some believe that a fungal infection may have been responsible for that, and a study to test this hypothesis is currently ongoing.In order to ke... |
3 May 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Yesterday, March 2, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that the eastern cougar is officially extinct. This was a subspecies of the largest cat that lives in North America. The eastern cougar, also known as the eastern puma, could initially be found in 21 states across the US, and the FWS cons... |
3 March 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Most people living in the United States and Canada know very little about the musk oxen, a large herbivorous mammal that has roamed the land for millions of years. Only small populations endured to this day, and conservations are currently renewing their efforts to protect the species. Although it's listed as LC... |
29 December 2010
06:39 GMT |
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Woolly mammoths were good parents and they nursed their infants for two or three years after birth, but a new research carried out by the University of Western Ontario concluded that this extra care only contributed to their extinction. These massive animals lived north of the Arctic Circle during the Pleistocene Ep... |
22 December 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of Washington say that if no conservation measures are taken, the Mariana crow – a forest crow living on Rota Island in the western Pacific Ocean, will be extinct in 75 years.There are about 35 crow species known today, and Mariana crows are considered rare and classified as crit... |
20 December 2010
11:05 GMT |
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About three years ago, the polar bear was officially introduced on the threatened species list, as authorities recognized the peril these animals were in. At this point, the entire species is heading for extinction, but this can still be avoided, experts say.One of the main reasons why the mammals are endangered is b... |
16 December 2010
04:41 GMT |
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The reptile extinction waves in the Greek islands over the past 15,000 years, give a very accurate response of the way that plants and animals will react to the fast global warming, due to human-caused climate change, concluded a University of Michigan ecologist.Johannes Foufopoulos and his colleagues, wanted to bett... |
10 December 2010
06:16 GMT |
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A third of the sharks, rays and skates on our planet are threatened with extinction, and mankind has something to do with it, as always, concluded a new study carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).The IUCN's Red List which gives the worldwide standard for assessing the conserva... |
2 November 2010
09:03 GMT |
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According to a survey presented at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in Nagoya, Japan, it would appear that 20 percent of all vertebrate on the planet are currently being threatened with extinction. The work also suggests that current conservation efforts are effective in curbing this trend, in the areas ... |
27 October 2010
05:45 GMT |
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According to a team of Russian archaeologists, it would appear that volcanic eruptions may have played an important part in the extinction of Neanderthals, the hominid species most closely related to our own, Homo sapiens.Over the years, scientists have proposed a variety of explanations for why these individuals dis... |
12 October 2010
20:31 GMT |
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All animal species on Earth are part of an animal chain, a network, a relationship between predator and prey, a “food web” and if one species goes extinct, some of the others might suffer too, but which one?Ecologists Stefano Allesina and Mercedes Pascual also asked themselves this question but they also ... |
10 September 2010
02:54 GMT |
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According to experts at NOAA, it would appear that the number of basking sharks living in populations based in the Pacific Ocean has been steadily declining for years. The experts have no declared the marine animals a “species of concern.” The announcement was made by experts at the US National Oceanic an... |
9 September 2010
06:21 GMT |
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Authorities in Tanzania have it in their minds to construct a new road in the northern parts of the country. That would be all well and good, if the road were not to pass through one of the world's largest and most important wildlife sanctuary.The Serengeti National Park is one of the most renowned areas in the ... |
2 September 2010
03:30 GMT |
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Human expansion may have played a very important role in the decline and eventual extinction of cave bears, a new scientific study shows. Previously, it was believed that climate change was to blame.For many years, researchers believed that climate change forced cave bears to go extinct throughout Europe, some 24,000... |
24 August 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Oysters differ from other marine animals that produce glue to affix themselves to each other via the fact that they produce cement to keep their colonies together. The conclusion, which belongs to a new study by experts at the Purdue University and the University of South Carolina (USC), may holds great importance fo... |
24 August 2010
02:56 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service announced recently that they plan to make modifications to the status of several areas in Alaska. The measures are necessary so that the organization complies with the Endangered Species Act. Scientists and conservations expe... |
7 August 2010
04:28 GMT |
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According to a new scientific survey from the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), it would appear that the radiated tortoise (Geochelone radiata) is rapidly approaching extinction. The animal, which is endemic to Madagascar, the large island on the eastern coast of Africa, is c... |
6 April 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Scientists involved in the desperate attempt to protect the endangered Virginia big-eared bats from extinction recently admitted that they have their work cut out for them. These animals are under threat from a very potent fungal infection, which at this point has no viable cure. Researchers say that it acts by awake... |
12 March 2010
08:51 GMT |
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The koala bears are some of the most beautiful animals on the entire planet, and yet they are now threatened with extinction due to loss of habitat and human activities. A new report provides a bleak perspective to their future, showing that the bears could disappear completely within less than 30 years. The most sev... |
10 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking discovery that could potentially unlock the mystery surrounding the disappearance of dinosaurs, experts in India have uncovered an ancient dinosaur spawning ground, featuring hundreds of clusters of eggs. Initial estimates place the fossilized remains at about 65 million years in the past, althoug... |
2 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, published in the latest issue of the Geological Journal, the woolly mammoth persisted in the territory that is now the United Kingdom 6,000 years longer than first estimated. The new research, which analyzed several fossils found in Shropshire in 1986, determined that the large be... |
18 June 2009
04:39 GMT |
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New archaeological data that have emerged following digs in New Mexico and Colorado seem to infirm the hypothesis that states that the catastrophic chain of events that triggered the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinct event killed off all dinosaur species on Earth, alongside some 70 percent of all other animals and fo... |
29 April 2009
10:59 GMT |
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According to a new set of scientific investigations carried out at the site of the Chicxulub crater, in the northern Yucatan Peninsula, New Mexico, the asteroid that hit our planet more than 65 million years ago was not the reason for the extinction of dinosaurs and about 65 percent of all other species on Earth. The... |
27 April 2009
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The events that unfolded about 250 million years ago, at the Permian-Triassic boundary, are some of the most mysterious in history. At that moment, over a short period of time, more than 90 percent of all animals and plants on the surface of the planet died off, in a massive extinction event, for which satisfactory e... |
30 March 2009
10:39 GMT |
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It's widely accepted in the scientific community that a massive extinction event took place on Earth between the Permian and the Triassic periods, wiping up almost 90 percent of both marine and land species and driving the ancestors of dinosaurs to the brink of extinction. Now, a team of researchers is seeking t... |
3 March 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Over the years, we've heard numerous theories and hypotheses as to how the dinosaurs went extinct, and what caused the global event responsible for it. We've been thought to believe a comet or an asteroid is more than capable of wiping out all life on Earth, but a new research seems to contradict that. That... |
18 February 2009
07:01 GMT |
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When people hear about mass extinctions of the past, they immediately think dinosaurs and asteroids, but what they don't know is that the event that occurred about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), was not the first. In fact, before they even appeared, life came close to being obliterat... |
13 December 2008
04:16 GMT |
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According to some IT industry analysts, the well known and widely used computer mouse may become an endangered species in the not so far future. The tendency in the industry is to offer users devices that will allow them to move the cursor on a screen through finger or hand gestures on touch screens and multi-touch t... |
21 November 2008
04:43 GMT |
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The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), a salamander that also goes by the names of the "water monster" or the "Mexican walking fish," was an important element in Aztec legends and diet. As legend has it, the Aztec god of lightning, death and monstrosities, Xolotl, changed into an axolotl and ran into hiding in the Xochim... |
4 November 2008
06:10 GMT |
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We all know that the environmental collapse topic is overrated, old news and largely discussed, to the point where it has become devoid of its true meaning. However, with all the people talking about it and urging towards taking a stance, one would expect that all is going better and that the problems are finally st... |
4 November 2008
04:29 GMT |
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More complex studies of all five mass extinctions that paleontologists know about have shown that, with the exception of, maybe, the last one, four global extinction events (GEE) have no plausible scientific explanation. In the researchers' own words, a rock falling out of the sky simply doesn't cut it. The... |
17 October 2008
09:29 GMT |
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The Tasmanian devil populations are in serious decline, notifies the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its latest report. While the devils had a "least concern" rating a decade ago, the Union decided to move their threat level to "endangered". In some habitats, the populations decreased by as m... |
16 October 2008
10:20 GMT |
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The state of Earth's wildlife is bleak at best, say researchers. More than 50 percent of all mammal species are endangered and a quarter of them are in immediate danger and face extinction. Out of the 5,487 mammals studied in this year's edition of the Red Book, a publication that keeps track of the danger ... |
7 October 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Giant tortoises still represent the living symbol of the Galápagos archipelago, even as four of the fifteen species have long since been exterminated by human activity in the region. However, one of them could be brought back to life based on genetic techniques applied to museum-preserved specimens. When... |
24 September 2008
09:19 GMT |
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A new study found out that early dinosaurs were far from being able to pose a threat for their competition; however, evolution in the planetary climate changed all that. At the beginning of the Triassic period, the planet was inhabited by a group of ruling reptilians called archosaurs. Over the next 10 million y... |
12 September 2008
03:53 GMT |
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With the help of data regarding the fossils of as much as 4,000 known species of mammals that lived on Earth up to 60 million years ago, Aaron Clauset of the Santa Fe Institute and Douglas Erwin of the National Museum of Natural History created one of the most accurate computer models that estimates how the body size... |
18 July 2008
10:43 GMT |
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The mass extinction of the marine life nearly 93 million years ago would have been most likely determined by the lack of oxygen in the oceanic waters as an intense underwater volcanic activity was triggered, says a study co-authored by Steven Turgeon of the University of Alberta. For a long time volcanism was thought... |
17 July 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Fatal facial cancer tumors have been ravaging the Tasmanian devil populations ever since the mid 1990s, killing up to one third of the total number of the world's largest surviving carnivorous marsupials in the last decade or so. The fatal devil facial tumour disease (which in Tasmanian devils is probably spread... |
15 July 2008
05:20 GMT |
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The group of most threatened animal species on Earth was extended recently to include the corals, which, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, will lose more than 25 percent of all species within the next couple of decades. Currently, there are 845 registered species of corals, out of w... |
11 July 2008
05:44 GMT |
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When it comes to reptiles, temperature, rather than chance, decides the sex of their young ones. In most species of reptiles, an increase in nesting temperature usually gives rise to more females than males, although for a unique species of reptiles known as tuatara the situation is exactly the opposite. This basical... |
2 July 2008
10:05 GMT |
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Just as Jesus woke up from the dead some two millennia ago, now a tree known as the Methuselah Tree (Phoenix dactylifera L.), currently extinct, has come back to life from a 2000 year old seed. The Methuselah Tree is currently the record holder for the oldest known seed ever to germinate. The seeds were allegedly dis... |
13 June 2008
03:45 GMT |
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According to a new report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature 11 species of sharks around the world are at high-risks of extinction, while another five show a significant decline. The reason is, as usual, over-fishing, which is affecting shark species especially due to their low rates of re... |
23 May 2008
06:14 GMT |
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Asteroid and comet collisions usually bring havoc to Earth, often provoking mass extinctions, but they can also seed life. In fact, we're most likely the product of such an event that took place several hundred million years ago. The last large impact that occurred is dated about 65 million years in the past and... |
15 May 2008
10:02 GMT |
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As it travels through the Milky Way, the Sun experiences a periodical oscillation in relation to the galactic plane, meaning that the solar system intersects with some of the densest areas of the galaxy. This in turn can send comets and asteroids our way and determine catastrophic impacts with the Earth, such as that... |
13 May 2008
09:31 GMT |
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Over 6.6 billion people inhabit the planet today. With all that, 70,000 years ago, no more than 2,000 people existed, as revealed by a new research carried out at Stanford University and published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. 70,000 years ago, our species was represented only by a small isolated African... |
29 April 2008
04:42 GMT |
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