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Geologist offers new clues to cause of world's greatest extinction
2017-07-31 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may have triggered the world's most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago. James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications (Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2017) titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.&quo…
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Conserve intact forest landscapes to maximize biodiversity, reduce extinction risk
2017-07-19 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] CORVALLIS, Ore. — A new global analysis of forest habitat loss and wildlife extinction risk published July 19 in the journal Nature shows that species most at risk live in areas just beginning to see the impacts of human activities such as hunting, mining, logging and ranching. The researchers argue that these intact areas deserve higher priority for limited conservation dollars than areas already impacted heavily by human activity even though species are also threat…
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Prelude to global extinction
2017-07-10 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:ÂTropical forest logging has contributed to population declines in many animals, including the Bornean gibbon, known for its whooping call. Credit: Gerardo Ceballos No bells tolled when the last Catarina pupfish on Earth died. Newspapers didn't carry…
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Fern fossil data clarifies origination and extinction of species
2017-07-06 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: Tree ferns still occupy the tropical moist forests in Australia, even though they shared their 'golden age' with dinosaurs. Credit: Samuli Lehtonen Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of ear…
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Size not important for fish in the largest mass extinction of all time
2017-06-30 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: Fishes in Triassic seas of China 8 million years after the extinction crisis. v Credit: Brian Choo Understanding modern biodiversity and extinction threats is important. It is commonly assum…
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