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Climate change has made a mammal extinct, great job humanity
2016-08-08 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Metro: For the first time ever, human-driven climate change has caused the extinction of a mammal. The Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent, lived only in the Great Barrier Reef but has been wiped out by rising sea levels, according to Australian researchers. Delta Air Lines grounds ALL flights after massive system outage The long-tailed, whiskered creature lived only on Bramble Cay, a tiny island between Australia and Papua New Guinea, and was thought to be the only mammal native to the Great Barrier...
Great Barrier Reef rodent becomes first extinct mammal at the hand of climate change
2016-08-08 04:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ZME Magazine: Great Barrier Reefs only endemic mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys, is now officially extinct, scientists say. The rat-like rodent occupied a very confined habitat spanning an area no larger than a football field called Bramble Cay, a minuscule atoll in the northeast Torres Strait, Australia. Although pressured by human hunting and competition with other species, what ultimately killed off the species were surging seawaters and rising tides triggered by man-made climate change the first mammalian...
Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct by Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say
2016-08-07 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to human-caused climate change. The rodent was known to have lived only on Bramble Cay, a minuscule atoll in the northeast Torres Strait, between the Cape York Peninsula in the Australian state of Queensland and the southern shores of Papua New Guinea. The long-tailed, whiskered creature, called...
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First discovery from 'New Riversleigh' -- a new extinct carnivorous marsupial
2016-07-25 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] A new species of extinct flesh-eating marsupial that terrorised Australia's drying forests about 5 million years ago has been identified from a fossil discovered in remote northwestern Queensland. The hypercarnivore, which is thought to have weighed about 20 to 25 kilograms, is a distant and much bigger cousin of Australia's largest living, flesh-eating marsupial, the Tasmanian Devil, which weighs in at about 10 kilogram. Named Whollydooleya tom…
Nepals Extinct Bird Spotted After Disappearing for 178 Years
2016-06-15 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A team of bird-watchers stumbled upon a bird that hasn`t been seen in eastern Nepal for almost 200 years. The red-faced liocichla (Liocichla phoenicea) hasn`t been spotted for 178 years and was thought to be locally extinct, according to Australian Geographic. A group of ornithologists spotted the bird on a 10-day bird watching tour. We were excited when we first spotted a pair of red-faced liocichla in the forest, Hem Sagar Baral, of the Zoological Society London and leader of the tour,...
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