In a study conducted in Queensland, Australia, for example, populations of two amphibian species, Litoria nannotis and Litoria genimaculata, were found to exhibit far greater levels of limb asymmetry in pre-decline years than in control years, the latter of which preceded die offs by an average of 16 years.
In temperature latitudes, worker and drone hornets die off by late fall, leaving only the queen to survive through the winter.
By the1960s, alewives had become so plentiful that they began dying off by the billions, polluting beaches with tons of rotting fish.
The track was explained by guitarist Jeff Hanneman to initially be about the human race dying off by a mutative disease.
It is widely believed that the world's languages number about seven thousand, with half of those predicted to die off by the end of this century.
Part of the reason is that even as Internet shopping sites die off by the truckload, the number of Web sites devoted to travel is actually expanding.
According to Jake Austen, author of "TV a-Go-Go: Rock on TV From 'American Bandstand' to 'American Idol' " and producer of a Chicago cable access dance show, local dance shows began to die off by the 1970s, when federal regulations made it illegal for hosts on children's shows to advertise directly to viewers, cutting off a big chunk of revenue.
"Unhappily, the brain stops growing at age 20, and thereafter, neurons die off by the millions every year," the comic reported.
The other 1 million or so oocytes present at birth die off gradually by programmed cell death, or apoptosis, until a woman reaches menopause at mid-age.
The Western cult of narcissism is spoiling our kids, making us neglectful of our elders, spawning an out-of-control material insatiability, and destroying us -- quite literally -- by having us die off without a replacement generation.
