Tiny pikas seem to be on march toward extinction in Great Basin
... States, appears to be veering toward the brink of extinction in the Great Basin. New research indicates the sma... 9,500 feet in Yosemite. "We might be staring pika extinction in the Great Basin, maybe in Yosemite, too, right in the face. Today, the Great Basin pika is totall...Scientists sequence DNA of woolly mammoth
...ify the role environmental changes did play in the extinction of an entire species. Initial funding for this study was provided by McMaster University, The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Penn State University. The researchers now are seeking funding for the completion of the m...Monitoring data confirm key predictions about extinction
...firmation of two theoretical predictions about the extinction process. The analysis demonstrates, first, that t...and variance in the rate of change) deteriorate as extinction approaches. Together, these results provide key empirical insights into extinction dynamics, which i...UC Santa Barbara researcher tapped by Europeans for design of instrument to test soil on Mars
...known for her development of a theory about a mass extinction (much earlier than that of the dinosaurs) and her ... in a period called the "Great Dying," the largest extinction event in the history of life on Earth, when 90 percent of marine life and 80 percent of life on land...New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinctions
... the world would help stave off an imminent global extinction crisis, according to new research published today ...ird), and the Sulu bleeding-heart (a dove). While extinction is a natural process, the authors note that current human-caused rates of species loss are 100-1,000...Russian River coho recovery project seeing first hopeful signs of success
...ing headway rescuing coho salmon from the brink of extinction in part of its historic California range. Recently...River are experiencing a dramatic return from near extinction following a similar recovery effort. Other efforts to restore coho populations exist elsewhere in C...Why the Amazon rainforest is so rich in species
.... Species split at very different rates, and their extinction or transformation is mostly determined by the ecology and biology of each species. We want to discover more about why some species survive and multiply, while others remain static or become extinct." Around 40% of the world's species can be found in ...Removing egg from nest may help save endangered whooping crane
...e same whether one egg or two is laid, the risk of extinction for the Wood Buffalo-Aransas whooping crane population is lowest when eggs are removed, says Boyce. He recognizes the need to minimize human influence in national parks, but says priority should be given to ensure persistence of threatened and endan...Life support services threatened, 700 experts urge more prominence of biodiversity on world agenda
...s two-thirds of world species could be on route to extinction by the end of this century. He said nature will reach sustainability on its own terms unless humans change course. Pricing ecosystem services in order to evaluate economic trade-offs formed a dominant conference theme. Arizona State University Pro...Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds
...condors on the West Coast survived the Pleistocene extinction by switching to marine mammals--large carcasses of...g the eggs. That pushed them right to the brink of extinction until they hardly had any food left." By the 1980s, only two-dozen condors remained in the wild, pro...Valuing biodiversity services, including its insurance against disease
...vulnerability to recent natural disasters; How the extinction and endangerment of freshwater species, which provide a wide variety of goods and services for humanity, greatly exceeds that of terrestrial, marine, or vertebrate species; and How biodiversity-based solutions are being drawn from ecological and trad...Seeing the forest and the trees
... diversity that resulted from a range of different extinction scenarios: those governed by biological characteri...found in tropical forests. By simulating different extinction scenarios and analyzing the resulting mix of tree species, the team was able to determine how much c...Founder of eastern Congo gorilla reserve wins prestigious award
... Grauer's gorilla, which was believed to be facing extinction during the war in eastern DRC from 1998 to 2003. New surveys by DFGFI and its partners have found indications of larger populations than previously recorded, showing the effectiveness of conservation efforts at Tayna and the other protected areas mod...Seafloor creatures destroyed by ice action during ice ages
... been thought that these ecosystems somehow dodged extinction by recolonising from nearby habitats that escaped obliteration. But researchers at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOC) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reveal a bleaker scenario. Dr Sven Thatje, an ecologist at NOC has been work...Woods Hole Research Center scientist part of international initiatives to save the great apes
The extinction of the great apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) and orangutans -- is imminent if strict conservation practices are not implemented in the immediate future. Once these practices have been initially implemented, ape populations ...Oxygen increase caused mammals to triumph, researchers say
...lacental mammals on Earth at the time of the great extinction of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago, Falkowski.... They were, however, tiny, limited creatures; the extinction event itself, while eliminating the dinosaurs, did little to further the mammalian domination of the...Study in Royal Society journal on first observation of giant squid in the wild
... loss and fragmentation increase the risk of local extinction of small populations. Species may nonetheless survive regionally if sufficient numbers of individuals disperse and establish new populations to compensate for extinctions. Here we show that dispersal ability in a butterfly species is related to genet...Experts develop global action plan to save amphibians facing extinction
... of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians facing extinction from familiar threats such as pollution and habita...eclines since the 1980s signaling one of the worst extinction crises of our time. "We still have time to save these threatened species if appropriate conservation...Skull study sheds light on dinosaur diversity
...nosaur era but were thought to have been pushed to extinction by more specialized plant-eaters at the end of that era. New discoveries, however, are showing that one lineage of sauropods diversified at the end of the dinosaur era, University of Michigan paleontologist Jeffrey Wilson says. Wilson's recent restu......antic antlers) lived from 400,000 years ago to its extinction 8000 years ago and would have towered over its descendant, reaching a shoulder height of around two metres with antlers spanning 3.5 metres (10 feet). Deer from around the world (including the southeast Asian axis deer, the hog deer and fallow deer) ...