Great beasts peppered from space
(BBC News) Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space. Eight tusks dating to some 35,000 years...
Tagged: extinction
West African Black Rhino Extinct, Group Says
(National Geographic News) The West African black rhinoceros has likely gone extinct, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) announced last week. “The West African black rhino is now feared extinct,” the Switzerland-based environmental group said,...
Half of all languages face extinction this century
(New Scientist) Half of all human languages will have disappeared by the end of the century, as smaller societies are assimilated into national and global cultures, scientists have warned. Losing this linguistic diversity will...
