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"When a dam blocks stream passage, threatened and endangered salmon suffer; when forests with nesting trees for marbled murrelets are logged, threatened murrelets slide closer to extinction," the complaint said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

According to the wildlife trust, there has been a 19% decline in wildlife in the UK since 1970 and nearly one in six species is threatened with extinction from Great Britain.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Many Americans are souring on the technology, but for activists on the front lines, the driving fear is often more dramatic: human extinction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

The results point to one major difference: species whose metabolisms were less able to cope with warmer, oxygen poor water suffered the highest extinction rates.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Sir Fig Newton had the silent cat killer, and my only proof had melted into extinction.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Kevin said it was much more likely for extinctions to happen in localised areas, something that has already happened.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

Martindale typically studies ancient coral reefs and mass extinctions.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

However Han said there is evidence of 18 or more mass extinctions over the last 540 million years, calling for more attention to be paid to the immensely destructive events.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

"These three sites were classic sites in the discovery and the documentation of the megafaunal extinctions in North America and the disappearance of the Clovis culture," said Kennett.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 1, 2026

For those extinct American mammals whose bones are available in greatest abundance and have been dated especially accurately, one can pinpoint the extinctions as having occurred around 11,000 B.C.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond