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The last big game in England
This story is not about Cricket, though some reading the headline may have been baited into thinking it so. No, it is about the days when England was an island without name, giving host to Stone Age humans from the... Scientists: Global warming could lead to mass human extinction
Sydney: Scientists have sounded alarm bells about how growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are driving irreversible and dramatic changes in the way the oceans function, providing evidence that... How to talk to a global warming denier
Having dealt with deniers of global warming, who have in many cases been highly aggressive and unprincipled, I have come up with a quick checklist of what one needs to say if faced with a denier of global warming. The following are responses to some of the claims I have... Scientists considering freezing coral reef samples to save them
Scientists from around the world who met in Denmark over the weekend to discuss coral reefs believe that they will all disappear from our waters altogether. Things are so bleak they... Parasites May Have Killed T-Rex
A new study finds Tyrannosaurus Rex may have become extinct due to the work of a small one-celled parasitic organism, which caused lacerations in the dinosaur's jaw bone. The disease trichomoniasis gallinae causes lesions in the beaks of modern birds of prey, and Australian...
created by Annina Bergman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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119 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
Soylent Green, Is this our first step towards Cannibalism ?
Of course it’s all due to longer life expectancy that many more world citizens will suffer from Dementia. The United Kingdom says there will be so many; the National Heath System will not be able to cope.... 369 views | 16 recommendations | 4 comments
Te Hokioi: Maori Man-Eating Bird Legend Is True
A legendary bird that ate humans is more than a Maori legend. Te Hokioi, a bird with talons as big as tigers' paws, existed in the form of Haast's eagle, which became extinct around 500 years ago when humans killed its main prey, the moa. Sir Julius von Haast discovered the...
created by Annina Bergman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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2394 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Urbanization and the Future World
Mesopotamian’s civilization with multi cities having finest cultural and literature achievements crumbled during 2300BC due to high toxic land unfit to agriculture. Between 1500-1000BC Indus valley civilization... Pangolin Fetus Soup, Other "Cures" Drive Trade
Scaly anteaters, pangolins are flirting with extinction because of the demand for pangolin fetus soup. The scaly anteater reproduces slowly and the increasing demand for the pangolin-fetus soup is driving...
created by Barbara McPherson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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391 views | 34 recommendations | 3 comments
3 species of birds are close to extinction
Three species of birds are close to extinction now due to loss of habitat and deforestation. The Ethiopian Lark, the Galapagos Finch and a certain species of hummingbird from Colombia have all been added to ... Britain's rarest spider saved from the brink of extinction
Britain's rarest spider - the Ladybird Spider - has been saved from being wiped out forever after a successful conservation program. They were almost wiped out in the early 90s due to loss of habitat and at one... Brown bears bounce back from brink of extinction in Italy
After many years of facing extinction in Italy, brown bears now appear to be bouncing back, as a successful conservation programme in the areas around Rome has seen dozens of cubs recently roaming the forests. The... Melting ice pushing penguins to extinction
Climate change may push penguins to extinction with floating sea ice receding in the Antarctic. There is a 33% chance that 95% of the Adélie Land colony in Eastern Antarctica will be gone by 2100 and the... Human Consumption of Frog Legs Might Cause Frogs to Go Extinct
Humans are overindulging in frog legs according to recent research. Scinetists suspect that anywhere between 200 million to 1 billion of frog legs are consumed each year. This has detrimental effects on frog...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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2257 views | 10 recommendations | 5 comments
Northern Rockhopper Penguin species nears extinction
The population of the Northern Rockhopper Penguin have declined by 90 percent in 50 years, and this species once had numbers in the million. Now the largest colonies are on Gough Island, with 32,000 to 65,000 pairs... NowPublic on Facebook
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