[ad_1] October 16 (UPI) – Evolution can not keep pace with the ecological damage caused by humans. According to a new study, the extinction rate in mammals accelerates, thus limiting the natural …
Read More »Insects, biodiversity, and mass extinction: an alarming new study, explained
[ad_1] In Puerto Rico’s rainforest, scientists have observed an astounding loss of life at the very base of the food web. It’s the insects. As an alarming new study in Proceedings of …
Read More »Mammals can not evolve fast enough to escape the extinction crisis
[ad_1] Humans exterminate animal and plant species so quickly that the built-in defense mechanism of nature – evolution – can not keep up. A research team led by Aarhus has calculated that …
Read More »Mammals Can’t Evolve Fast Enough to Outrun Human-Caused Mass Extinction
[ad_1] In just 50 years, we will witness dozens of mammals going extinct unless we make major global changes, says a new study published Tuesday. And it will take up to 5 …
Read More »Mammals can not evolve fast enough to escape the current extinction crisis
[ad_1] Illustration of how smaller mammals will have to evolve and diversify over the next 3 to 5 million years to compensate for the loss of large mammals. Credit: Matt Davis, University …
Read More »The human race is on the brink of extinction if the number of male sperm continues to decline around the world
[ad_1] Male fertility is declining every year in the western world – and experts are blaming modern chemicals and lifestyles. A study of 124,000 men attending fertility clinics in Europe and the …
Read More »The extinction of the end of the Permian, which wiped out most species of the Earth, was instantaneous in geological time
[ad_1] Sam Bowring (front) and former graduate student Seth Burgess inspecting the end-of-Permian extinction horizon in Penglaitan. Credit: Shuzhong Shen According to a new study conducted by MIT scientists in China and …
Read More »The largest mass extinction on Earth has seen most lives wiped out in the blink of an eye
[ad_1] About 252 million years ago, most scientists discovered that life on Earth had disappeared in the blink of an eye, even in just 3,000 years. The mass extinction – known as …
Read More »Clark Bar saved from extinction, returning to Pennsylvania
[ad_1] The iconic Pittsburgh candy bar returns to Pennsylvania. Boyer Candy Company in Altoona bought the rights, recipes and equipment for the Clark Bar from an unidentified vendor on Thursday. "We're really …
Read More »8 species of birds have disappeared this decade or are on the brink of extinction
[ad_1] Unlike the Rio animation, in real life, there are no more Macaws of Spix in nature. Credit: Cinema Blend. In the animated film 2011 Rio, a Macaw of the Spix family, …
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