Almost one in three freshwater species is threatened with extinction world-wide [proportion threatened 0.32; 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.24 0.49] (Fig. 2).
Although some small primitive mammals had lived in the shadow of the great Cretaceous reptiles, the scientists could not find evidence supporting an earlier hypothesis that up to 39 placental mammalian lineages survived to enter the post-extinction world.
In the post-extinction world, a small cadre of "disaster species" made the most of a bad situation.
Hitler scarcely made a secret of his desire to wipe out the Jews: in 1939 he prophesied the extinction of world Jewry during a speech at the Kroll Opera House.
As on other rivers and canals in Britain, commercial waterway traffic declined steadily during the 20th century to the point of near extinction after World War II.
One in six of the planet's species will be lost forever to extinction if world leaders fail to take action on climate change, according to a new analysis.
Winston Churchill's life spanned the last decades of the British Empire, and to read Carlo D'Este's enjoyable new biography is to recall the sequence of disasters that befell Britain between the final days of the Victorian era and its brush with extinction in World War II.
To illustrate this point, Fortuna & Bascompte [14] showed that, when simulating extinctions, real-world plant-animal networks start to decay sooner but persist longer than simulated, random networks in response to habitat loss.
Entertainment will be part of the site's mission, but its larger focus is hinted at by the name: the dodo – a bird whose extinction helped the world recognize how humans can impact our ecosystem, sometimes to devastating consequences.
By Elizabeth Kolbert Cuvier's proof of extinction, of "a world previous to ours," was a sensational event.
But the widespread killing and potential extinction of the world's last remaining great animals is the tragedy.
