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The red wolf is now functionally extinct in the wild.On April 24, 2018, the US Fish & Wildlife

The red wolf is now functionally extinct in the wild.

On April 24, 2018, the US Fish & Wildlife service released a five-year report filled with bad news. The single native population of these unique canines has around 40 individuals and is no longer viable. They will likely die off within the decade.

Captive breeding efforts continue, but NC authorities are still blocking reintroduction.


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#Unicorns #evolved into #horses to avoid #extinction #animals #Biology #mythology #elephants #scienc

#Unicorns #evolved into #horses to avoid #extinction

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Amid dire warnings of mass extinctions and ecological catastrophe, the migratory flights of monarch

Amid dire warnings of mass extinctions and ecological catastrophe, the migratory flights of monarch butterflies are vanishing. Habitat loss, insecticides, and increasing temperatures are all threatening monarch butterfly populations. Are the butterflies resilient enough to rebound from the precipitous decline they have experienced?

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Happy International Vulture Awareness Day!  Bald is beautiful!.  Why are they bald?  These birds helHappy International Vulture Awareness Day!  Bald is beautiful!.  Why are they bald?  These birds helHappy International Vulture Awareness Day!  Bald is beautiful!.  Why are they bald?  These birds helHappy International Vulture Awareness Day!  Bald is beautiful!.  Why are they bald?  These birds helHappy International Vulture Awareness Day!  Bald is beautiful!.  Why are they bald?  These birds hel

Happy International Vulture Awareness Day!  Bald is beautiful!.  Why are they bald?  These birds help clean up our environment and keep diseases at bay by eating carcasses.  The bald head helps reduce the places bacteria can hide (such as in feathers) while they are digging in for dinner.  Their adaptations to deal with carrion don’t stop there though.  These birds can literally eat diseases in flesh, and destory them in their guts, that would otherwise contaminate the environment. That’s right, vultures keep humans and other animals healthy!!  

However, most of them are suffering and dying out at human hands, and the world will be much worse off without these incredible birds.   Vultures all over the world are shot and exposed to intentional, and unintentional, lead and chemical contamination of carcasses.  Right now many old world vultures are having their populations devastated by the use of Diclofenac in livestock, which kills vultures soon after they eat from the carcass.  Even if you don’t like vultures, this is a problem directly applicable to humans, with the backlash already wreaking havoc in India.

This post contains photos of vultures I’ve been fortunate to meet over the years. My favorite vulture is, of course, the bearded vulture (aka lammergeier), but I don’t have a photo of a live one, only dead ones (study skins at museums).  I can’t wait until the day I can meet and interact with a live bearded vulture, but that may only happen in captivity if we don’t tackle the dangers of diclofenac, lead, and persecution, and do so quickly.  We are talking vulture species extinctions within the next few years.  

If you are interested in learning more about what services vultures provide for humans (and other animals), and how you can contribute to their conservation and restoration, please visit these websites:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/…/dont-vultures-get-sick-eat…/
http://www.peregrinefund.org/projects/asian-vulture-crisis
https://www.justgiving.com/africanvultures/
http://projectvulture.org.za/


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#mindcell #takeanote #stars #ignition #extinction #heartmatters #lovenotes #2019goals
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While the vaquita is not deliberately hunted by humans, its downfall has been the extensive fishing While the vaquita is not deliberately hunted by humans, its downfall has been the extensive fishing

While the vaquita is not deliberately hunted by humans, its downfall has been the extensive fishing of the totoaba, a fish whose swim bladder is a delicacy in China.  Gill nets used to catch totoaba have quite literally massacred the vaquita - over 80% of their population disappeared between 2008 and 2015.

Government efforts to preserve the species were perfunctory - “vaquita-safe” nets proved nowhere near as effective as the old gill nets, fishermen rioted when a related fishery was shut down for fear of it being used as a cover for tatoaba poaching (ironic, as that fishery used safer nets), and compensatory monthly checks to men losing their livelihood were meager, sometimes less than a man could make in a single day’s fishing.  The export of tataobas was banned and a marine reserve established, but poaching and smuggling is rampant, and there is little incentive to stop it.  A single tatoaba bladder can bring in $20 000, while the fine for being caught poaching is about $500.  Even now, the controversial Sea Shepherd is one of the few ships patrolling for poachers, and they can do little but film and report them.  In the meantime, dead vaquita continue to be pulled from the waters.

The latest estimates say there may be only 12 vaquita left in the world.  If the vaquita goes extinct, it will be the first extinction of a marine mammal since the loss of the baijiin 2006.


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Gone, but not forgotten! The dodo went extinct in the 1600s, when people and other predators invaded

Gone, but not forgotten! The dodo went extinct in the 1600s, when people and other predators invaded its island home. Mauritius, east of Madagascar, is the only place dodos ever lived.

While the birds died out before photography, their skeletons offer clues to what they were like. For example, this bird couldn’t fly—it had small wings for a bird of its size, its sternum has no keel (the support birds need for flight muscles), and it had thick leg bones made for walking. See this specimen up close in the Hall of Biodiversity!

Photo: D. Finnin/© AMNH

#dodo #musuems #amnh #NaturalHistory #extinction #biodiversity #birds #AnimalFacts (at American Museum of Natural History)
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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flashby Lucas Joel / NY TimesWhat happened to

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash

by Lucas Joel / NY Times

What happened to the dinosaurs when an asteroid about six miles wide struck Earth some 66 million years ago in what is today Mexico is well known: It wiped them out. But the exact fate of our planet’s diverse ocean dwellers at the time,  shelly ammonites, giant mosasaurs and other sea creatures, has not been as well understood.

New research now makes the case that the same incident that helped bring an end to the reign of the dinosaurs also acidified the planet’s oceans, disrupted the food chain that sustained life underwater and resulted in a mass extinction. The study, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, aims to shore up the hypothesis that the Chicxulub event’s destruction of marine life, the result of sulfur-rich rocks depositing acid rain into the oceans, was just as severe as the fire and fury it brought to land.

“It’s flash acidification, and it transformed ecosystems for millions of years,” said Noah Planavsky, a biogeochemist at Yale and one of the study’s authors. “We were shocked that we actually found this.”

The impact of the Chicxulub asteroid, so named for the crater it carved out around the Gulf of Mexico, sent columns of rock into Earth’s atmosphere, incinerated the planet’s forests and drove tsunamis far across the oceans. But the connection between the crash and the marine extinction has been less solid.

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Looking a plesiosaur in the eye over 160 million years after its death. ☠️ Here is the authentic fos

Looking a plesiosaur in the eye over 160 million years after its death. ☠️
Here is the authentic fossilised skull of Godiva the Plesiosaur (@godiva_the_plesiosaur), a plesiosaur from the Oxford Clay of Britain.
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Beautiful red harpes trilobite from Morocco.This fossil dates back to the Devonian era, being over

Beautiful red harpes trilobite from Morocco.
This fossil dates back to the Devonian era, being over 100 million years older than the oldest dinosaur fossils.
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Two red trilobites with exceptional green eyes. These both date back to the Devonian era, over 360 m

Two red trilobites with exceptional green eyes. These both date back to the Devonian era, over 360 million years ago!
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These jaws date back to the Jurassic!Here we have the fossilised skull of @godiva_the_plesiosaur,

These jaws date back to the Jurassic!
Here we have the fossilised skull of @godiva_the_plesiosaur, found in the Oxford Clay in Britain.
Plesiosaurs we’re marine reptile that lived in the ocean when #Dinosaurs ruled the Earth!
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The ribs of a plesiosaur dating back to the Jurassic.These fossils were found at Lyme Regis along

The ribs of a plesiosaur dating back to the Jurassic.
These fossils were found at Lyme Regis along the Jurassic Coast of Britain and belong to the same skeleton.
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This lower jaw dates back to the Jurassic era and belongs to: @mike_the_pliosaur.This is only a fr

This lower jaw dates back to the Jurassic era and belongs to: @mike_the_pliosaur.
This is only a fragment of the jaw, more has been preserved extending the whole length. Mike would have been an incredible predator, with so many teeth to catch and devour his prey.
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BIG NEWS! Today, South Africa dropped its plan to lift the four decade ban on international trade in

BIG NEWS! Today, South Africa dropped its plan to lift the four decade ban on international trade in rhino horn!

Thank you to everyone that signed our petition and helped call on the South African government to do this!

Legalizing trade in rhino horn would have been a disaster for species that are just barely hanging on now as it is. This decision does not fix the plight of rhinos—but it gives space and time to tackle poaching, close down illegal markets and eliminate the loopholes that already help enable the $20 billion market in illegal international wildlife trade. South Africa bought more time for rhinos today—and should follow up with more key actions to keep these animals on the planet.


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So I’ve read scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours. Ouch.

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The Science Of Why An Asteroid, Not A Comet, Wiped Out The Dinosaurs

“The most important thing is that we all learn what the correct scientific conclusion to draw is, and why. The impact event that occurred 66 million years ago was due to an asteroid, not a comet. We know this based on many reasons, including the very compelling chemical composition of the impactor, retrieved from Chicxulub crater and matched up with the layer of ash and clay found worldwide at the appropriate depth within sedimentary rock. A comet simply has the wrong properties, and the earlier study that claimed otherwise wasn’t just in error, but contained a series of unacceptably gross errors that should have resulted in the paper’s rejection.

The larger ethical issue, however, remains unresolved. What do we do about scientists who are so full of themselves that they willfully barge into a field they have no expertise in, and rather than work to gain that expertise and contribute meaningfully, they simply publish a superficial analysis to further their own fame and careers? This sort of practice must be discouraged, the same way we discourage those with no scientific expertise from contributing nonsense: through quality peer review. The alternative is to play an unwinnable game: scientific understanding by debate and public opinion. In the enterprise of science, it must always be facts and evidence, not persuaded minds, that carry the day.”

Did you read, back in February, that a comet, not an asteroid, wiped out the dinosaurs?

Well, if you even think there’s a minuscule chance of that, read this instead. Science, not the prestige of ‘a Harvard professor,’ must win.

[ 07 - Undead ] Some recent “sightings” of Tasmanian tigers/Thylacines inspired this idea. The last

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Some recent “sightings” of Tasmanian tigers/Thylacines inspired this idea. The last of its kind died in a zoo in 1936.
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 The Last Animals is a story about an extraordinary group of people who go to incredible lengths to


The Last Animals is a story about an extraordinary group of people who go to incredible lengths to save the planet’s last animals. The documentary follows the conservationists, scientists and activists battling poachers and transnational trafficking syndicates to protect elephants and rhinos from extinction. From Africa’s frontlines to behind the scenes of Asian markets to the United States, the film takes an intense look at the global response to this slaughter and the desperate measures to genetically rescue the northern white rhinos who are on the edge of extinction.

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If Sudan could speak..

Sudan is THE LAST male northern white rhino on our planet. One of his caregivers at Ol Pejeta Conservancy has some wise words from the majestic, soon to be extinct rhino in his care:

Sudan you are ok and healthy,though you spend many days alone,I wish you can tell the story more than i do; tell them how life was in southern Sudan, before that finger pulled the trigger and saw your brothers,…

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A gorgeous male Sumatran rhino bull in the forests of Borneo…there are less than 60 of the rh

A gorgeous male Sumatran rhino bull in the forests of Borneo…there are less than 60 of the rhinos remaining.

So close to losing them forever!


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Ranger James: caretaker of the last male Northern White Rhino

Name:JamesAge:29Location:Ol Pejeta in Kenya I have been a ranger for the last 5 years now,3 years as a rhino patrol man and 2 years now as the last three northern white rhinos caretaker. I grew with a passion for the conservation of nature,I realised there was need to have a right-minded people who would speak out for poaching stricken elephants and rhinos, as well other living…

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