"The fate of the European bison provides an example of the way in which a species may be brought to the brink of extinction in a very short time, and then saved only through great efforts, " says Dr. Zbigniew Krasinski of Poland's Bialowieza National Park.
Recent research suggests that there was, in fact, no impact in the North Sea at all, but the Ukrainian site does appear to be the result of a genuine collision that took place at the time of the dinosaur extinction and could therefore be connected with Shiva.
Privately-funded efforts to save this regal bird from extinction had been underway for some time at that point, and the federal government began its own efforts in 1966 with the passage of the Endangered Species Preservation Act, the precursor to the more comprehensive Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973.
FORBES: The Radical Abuse of the ESA Threatens the US Economy
Get ready for mobile prime time or get ready for extinction.
FORBES: Is Your Business Ready For Mobile Prime Time Or Extinction?
And we also know that several have happened in the past leading to the extinction of all higher life forms at the time.
FORBES: Meteorites Are The Universe's Way Of Telling Us We Need More Than One Planet To Live On
"The public phones found in telephone booths resist extinction, although finding one in working order can be time consuming, " he said.
This is not the first time a methane burp has been blamed for an extinction.
ECONOMIST: A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs�� domination
And when they made it through the most difficult time which may have determined the difference between the birth or extinction of a nation, they gave thanks.
This weekend's Grammy Awards telecast comes at a time when the music industry's labels are threatened with extinction faced with a brave new world of consumer choices and the Internet.
The first of these is due in only six months' time and the joint challenge is to save from slow extinction a party which until 1978 was modern France's most powerful voice on the left.
ECONOMIST: The party is probably on the skids, whoever runs it
Every newspaper is experimenting like mad these days, hoping to avoid extinction, but only the Post manages to wrong-foot itself just about every time it breaks its routine.
Yet, in a relatively short period of time, humans and their technological arsenal have driven most shark populations to the verge of extinction.
Using Argon-argon dating - a technique based on the decay ratio of radioactive potassium - researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Glasgow have revised both the date of the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago, and the timing of the Chicxulub asteroid impact that occurred at around the same time.
Rather than spend time on breathless hyperbole, Kimbrell should be worried about the very real possibility of driving wild salmon to extinction.
应用推荐