Extinction

Imagine a world where animals ran free, trees and grass covered the earth and the only light came from the sun and the stars. Goodmorning (judges) teachers, staff and students - have you ever wondered: What the earth would be like if humans went extinct? Humans were have said to been around for over 1 million years- but what if, we suddenly disappeared? Whether it being from a zombie apocalypse, asteroid, or nuclear warfare. What would happen after we were all gone? Shortly after humans are gone

Should Research on De-extinction and Cloning be continued? Have you ever imagined how it would feel when extinct species, like woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons, are brought back to the Earth? How would it be like to revive long dead species? Obviously, many would imagine it to be amusing and fascinating. There are numerous discussions ongoing that address the prospect as well as the impacts of de-extinction and cloning. I believe that de-extinction and cloning, though seem fascinating at first

Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction in the Late Devonian has often been considered as one of the major 5 extinctions through time. Conflicting interpretations for the cause of this extinction exist, but the role of volcanism is becoming increasingly appealing due to recent advances in radioisotope dating. New K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar ages for the Viluy traps in Siberia suggest multiphase emplacement of the Viluy traps with an early phase likely contributing to the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction. Other work supports

Panamanian golden frogs, the American mastodon, Neanderthals, coral reefs, and auks -- what do they have in common? They are all mentioned in Elizabeth Kolbert’s award-winning book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. In The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert relates the findings of her investigations into several extinctions recently reported, connecting them to several human activities such as habitat fragmentation and introducing nonnative and invasive species, while also giving the readers various history

history of environmental change, as well as discussing modern day environmental trends. Her latest novel, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History focuses on placing what she terms “The Anthropocene Extinction” in the context of life’s history. Through an analysis of the Big 5 extinctions as well as of more isolated extinctions, Kolbert communicates that the definition of extinctions has evolved with human understanding. In the past, renowned scientists have wavered between a catastrophist and uniformitarian

Potential Effects of the Next Extinction When the 6th Mass Extinction does occur, the effects will be tremendous. Unlike the other extinctions, it is predicted that the changes associated with this extinction will not only create a new epoch in history, but also shape the Earth in the way microbes evolved into multicellular organisms did (Hance, 2015). The effects, however, will be somewhat similar to past extinctions. One predicted effect of the 6th Mass Extinction is the availability of empty

Mass extinctions events have been going on for more than 443 million years. So far there have been five big events. Although the notion of mass extinctions has always been present, the usage of statistical methods to efficiently backup extinction data did not start until the 1900s. For the scientific community, mass extinction is the combined term that designates the extinction of a wide number of species disappearing in a relatively short period of time, although it does not account for its precision

The article Should Extinction Be Forever?,Restitution, Restoration, and Reviving Extinct Species by Christian Diehm, discusses the concept of de-extinction, or restoring species that were once extinct by human cause. The concept is very controversial and various authors and scientists have their views on it. Although a good idea on the outside, de-extinction has many problematic factors associated with it. The thylacine or “Tasmanian tiger”, was declared extinct in 1936 when the last surviving one

island of Ischia, One Tree Island, and many, many more. Extinction, the disappearance of a particular species, is a crucial topic in this particular book. Many species over the whole entire world, are quickly declining in numbers. Humans have a vital responsibility for some of these species going extinct, and we need to advertise what we are doing to animals world wide so we aren’t a source of the majority of extinctions. The Sixth Extinction focuses on the aspects of endangered and extinct species

The Sixth Mass Extinction? Is the earth entering its sixth mass extinction? Many scientists think that it’s very clear that we are. There have currently been five mass extinctions, and they all have a huge common factor: they happened over many, many years. Over those many years extreme amounts of species died out. Right now, approximately one third of land animals are decreasing in population numbers. This is just one factor that leads scientists to believe that we are entering, or already in