sixth mass extinction

a model in the study mimicking conditions in the permian period suggests marine animals essentially suffocated in the warming waters

The ‘great dying’: rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says

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Up to 96% of all marine species and more than two-thirds of terrestrial species perished 252m years ago — Rapid global warming caused the largest extinction event in the Earth’s history, which wiped out the vast majority of marine and terrestrial animals on the planet, scientists have found. The mass extinction, known as the “great …

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jones at home in carmarthenshire, wales

‘It’s very easy to save a species’: how Carl Jones rescued more endangered animals than anyone else

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Without Jones, the world might have lost the Mauritius kestrel, the pink pigeon, the echo parakeet and more – but the biologist’s methods are controversial   — The last surviving bird of prey on Mauritius seemed doomed. In 1974, there were only four Mauritius kestrels left in the wild and attempts to breed them in …

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