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New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction - NYTimes.comNew Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared. This circumstantial evidence from the fossil ...
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Global Warming Could Reverse a Walrus Comeback - NYTimes.comWalruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes Half a century after Pacific walruses began recovering from industrial-scale hunting, marine biologists are growing worried that they face a mounting threat from global warming . Masses of lumbering walruses have been crowding on ...
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Puerto Ayora Journal - Ecuador Limits Residence to Protect Galápagos - NYTimes.comEcuador Limits Residence to Protect Galápagos PUERTO AYORA, Galápagos Islands — The mounds of reeking garbage on the edge of this settlement 600 miles off Ecuador’s Pacific coast are proof that one species is thriving on the fragile archipelago whose unique wildlife inspired Darwin’s theory ...
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Stowaway mosquitoes threaten Galapagos wildlifeLand iguanas are seen at the Galapagos National Park on Santa Cruz Island September 15, 2008. Photograph by: Guillermo Granja, Reuters LONDON – The unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands is under threat from disease-carrying mosquitoes arriving on board growing numbers of aircraft and ...
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Galapagos Islands Affected By Global Warming - Science News - redOrbitGalapagos Islands Affected By Global Warming The unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands is being threatened by climate change, and scientists are seeking a way to protect its vulnerable species. The Galapagos wildlife was what helped Charles Darwin develop his thoughts on evolution about ...
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9Leatherback Turtle Threatened By Plastic Garbage In OceanOK... Plastic has got to go...Murray Peat added 8 months ago
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9Global Warming Off The Hook: Humans Implicated In Pre-Historic Australian Extinctions | Eureka! Science News Aug 11, 2008And if humans caused the downfall of these species, perhaps the dinosaurs lived later than we thought and we made them extinct too.Murray Peat added 15 months ago
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9Ultra-low Oxygen Could Have Triggered Die-offs, Spurred Bird Breathing SystemOr maybe the rising waters that covered the earth at the Flood suppressed oxygen levels...Murray Peat added 16 months ago
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9Center for Biological DiversityI wonder if the principles of a) the survival of the fittest and b) the Centre for Biolological Diversity will collide?Murray Peat added 18 months ago
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