When the researchers plotted their findings on a graph, they found that the howler monkey, a new-world species, fell in with its old-world cousins.
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They view the calendar as portending the end of one era and heralding the start of a new one, not the death of all the world's species.
To reduce the time it takes to name the world's species, Dr Costello and colleagues recommend more taxonomists to be employed, increased financial support and international coordination in the scientific community to share expertise.
"This update offers both good and bad news on the status of many species around the world, " Jane Smart, director of IUCN's global species program said in a statement.
DC, 70% of the world's mosquito species are pinned and ready to be barcoded.
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is an open-access, online database created in 2007 with the participation of 146 institutions in 32 countries.
The seed bank at Kew, the largest of its kind in the world, currently stores 11% (around 31, 000 specimens) of the world's plant species.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Up to half of the world's magnolia species are in danger of extinction, according to a new study by conservationists.
The Global Amphibian Assessment has warned that a third of the world's amphibian species are in danger of extinction, many because of the chytrid fungus.
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Of the world's 340 species of hummingbird, more than 130 are found in this country, and Guango Lodge, 11km east of Papallacta, is one of its finest bird-watching sites.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has found that 32 percent of the world's amphibian species are threatened or extinct, including more than 200 alone in both Mexico and Colombia.
The Bengal tiger is the national symbol of India and an endangered species around the world.
The charity will also contribute to conservation projects working with endangered species throughout the world.
Asian short-clawed otters - the world's smallest otter species - are classed by conservation organisations as vulnerable to extinction.
The giant panda is one of the most endangered species in the world.
Of the 3, 500 mushroom species in the world, 2, 000 of them have been found in the forests around the village.
Five of the world's seven turtle species, many of whose numbers are in decline, can be seen off the UK coast.
John Kress and David Erickson, who both work at the Smithsonian, have barcoded all 689 species listed in World Economic Plants.
The park contributes to conservation projects working with endangered species throughout the world and has managed a hedgehog rehabilitation programme for 25 years.
Coral reefs are home to 25 percent of the world's marine fish species, and cover 1 percent of the Earth's surface, making them the largest single living structure on Earth.
Now dictatorships are an endangered species around the world.
According to Dr Sybille Klenzendorf, director of World Wildlife Fund's species program, there is already a wide body of evidence that suggests people are most interested in vulnerable animals that most closely resemble human beings -- usually large mammals with forward-facing eyes.
That's despite the fact that more species have been described in the last decade than in any previous one, according to a report published online on November 15 in the Cell Press publication Current Biology that details the first comprehensive register of marine species of the world-a massive collaborative undertaking by hundreds of experts around the globe.
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Arguing that the proliferation of advanced anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles, mines and other sophisticated weapons into the hands even of Third World nations is making endangered species of the vessels that form the backbone of "over-the-beach" warfighting, Mr. Gates and his senior subordinates seem disposed - all other things being equal - to argue for scaling back, if not eliminating, such platforms.
Tradescant the Elder, especially, devoted much of his life to bringing new species of plants and trees to England, from all over the known world, and to cultivating new varieties from existing species.
The Asian carp is a species not native to this part of the world, and its presence in the Great Lakes would be devastating to the species that are native to Lake Michigan and its counterpart lakes.
Some 16, 000 trees populate the arboretum near Tetbury, featuring 2, 500 different species from across the world.
At least one-third of the species that inhabit the world's oceans may remain completely unknown to science.
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Institutions around the world are freezing tissues from endangered species just in case.
But the anatomical modifications which show biologists that these extinct species were not the world's greatest aviators, also serve to obscure their origins.
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