8 results for “extinction”

1. Life & Biology

   Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions

   extinct. A pigeon on a windowsill is a living one. The day the Cretaceous ended Sixty

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2. Life & Biology

   Ecosystems and Food Webs

   extinction along the Pacific coast, urchins multiplied and devoured the kelp forests, and the fish, seals

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3. Animals

   Sharks

   extinction, and they did it with a body plan so effective that it has barely needed

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4. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

   every bee on a flower is holding up one end of a deal older than the dinosaurs' extinction.

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5. Animals

   Whales and Dolphins

   extinction. A global moratorium on commercial whaling took effect in 1986, and most populations have been

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6. Animals

   Reptiles and Amphibians

   extinction, and dozens have disappeared in recent decades. Habitat loss and pollution are part of it, but the main

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7. Animals

   Birds

   with us. And they are the proof, flying past every window, that dinosaurs are not extinct.

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8. Animals

   Mammals

   extinction, mostly from habitat loss and hunting. The group that inherited the Earth from the dinosaurs

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