Mastodons suffered total extinction by around 10,000 years ago, and many think that early humans who crossed the Beringia Land Bridge from Asia to the Americas 14,000 years ago were to blame. But according to a reexamination of mastodon bones, these giants vanished from arctic and subarctic latitudes more than 50,000 years earlier that we…
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Humans Are Killing Off Animal Species 1,000 Times Faster Than Nature Can Create New Ones
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New research has proven that the extinction of millions of species was expedited by mankind. According to Quartz, a study published in Conservation Biology examined fossil records, extinction rates and genetic changes and determined nature is responsible for driving just one out of every 10 million species to extinction. This is much less than researchers…
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Volcanic Floods Contributed Less To Dinosaur Extinction Than Thought
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The end-Cretaceous mass extinction event 66 million years ago is well known to have caused the death of the non-avian dinosaurs, along with at least 50 percentof all plant and animal life on Earth. Most scientists point to a massive asteroid impact as the primary antagonist, but it is true that huge floods of lava…
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Most Species That Go Extinct In Modern Times Will Leave No Permanent Trace
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We already know that the current fossil record is incredibly incomplete. The conditions needed to preserve the remains of an animal after it dies are so specificthat only a fraction of the billions of creatures to have walked this planet will have been turned to stone. But with hundreds, if not thousands of species currently…