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And here we have a very prime example of the iconic dodo, which comes from Mauritius, and, of course, we know is now a symbol of
extinction.
It used to grow on the mainland, but through the sheer pressures of urbanization has been pushed out of the mainland, and we've managed to bring it back from the brink of
extinction
by developing in vitro plants which are now growing in the wild.
We have six species yet in Madagascar, and we don't know what is the potential of this plant, but one thing we know is that the flora is considered to be threatened with
extinction.
In the wake of war, stolen land, boarding schools, laws banning religion, anthropologists collected sacred objects in the belief that Native peoples were on the cusp of
extinction.
In almost every simulation, organisms that see none of reality but are just tuned to fitness drive to
extinction
all the organisms that perceive reality as it is.
I guess the big question here is, am I studying tapirs and contributing to their conservation, or am I just documenting their
extinction?
Tropical forests and other ecosystems are being destroyed, climate change, so many species on the brink of extinction: tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos, tapirs.
If you think about it, the
extinction
of tapirs would seriously affect biodiversity as a whole.
This is the geography of an animal that we are driving to extinction, a fellow being, the most magnificent creature on land.
You now have evidence of the origin and
extinction
of species over time.
Honeybees aren't necessarily in danger of extinction, but fewer bees overall means less pollination and higher food costs, so it's crucial that scientists solve the case of the vanishing bees.
In fact, animals swimming in these caves today are identical in the fossil record that predates the
extinction
of the dinosaurs.
This is also connected to the
extinction
crisis.
The cod population off Canada's East Coast collapsed in the 1990s, intense recreational and commercial fishing has decimated goliath grouper populations in South Florida, and most populations of tuna have plummeted by over 50%, with the Southern Atlantic bluefin on the verge of
extinction.
Diversity is not a bad thing, because even though we think of humans as very diverse, we came so close to
extinction
that all of us descend from a single African mother and the consequence of that is there's more genetic diversity in 55 African chimpanzees than there are in seven billion humans.
The dinosaurs died in the world's fifth mass extinction, snuffed out in a cosmic accident through no fault of their own.
Right now, our species is propagating an environmental disaster of geological proportions that is so broad and so severe, it can rightly be called the sixth
extinction.
66 million years ago, a much larger object hit the Earth, causing a massive
extinction.
So between about 15,000 years ago when people first came here, they started a process of interacting with the nature that led to the
extinction
of a big slew of large-bodied animals, from the mastodon to the giant ground sloth, saber-toothed cats, all of these cool animals that unfortunately are no longer with us.
We have now entered in the 6X, the sixth major
extinction
on this planet.
These animals often prey on flightless birds and can drive them to
extinction.
And the reason you want to alter the human body is because you eventually want a picture that says, that's us, and that's us, and that's us, because that's the way humanity survives long-term
extinction.
Your daughter, for whom you have already carried so much, wants to know what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from
extinction?
This is the greatest
extinction
event in Earth's history, even bigger than when the dinosaurs died out.
And this coincided with a mass
extinction
of many marine species.
They survived the
extinction
of the dinosaurs.
And accept your extinction."
Just for their muscles, giant clams were almost hunted to
extinction
between the 1960s and 1980s.
The largest clam in the world is facing the threat of extinction, with more than 50 percent of the wild population severely depleted.
We urgently need to invest in restoring salmon populations to save them from
extinction.
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