The World is Fucked
The World is Fucked
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Sixth mass extinction: 23 more species declared extinct
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
Twenty-two animals and one plant were formally declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The group joins the list of 650 plants and animals in the U.S. thought to be lost to extinction. Scientists warn that these are just some of the many species falling victim to a human-caused mass extinction event.
- 18 new species around the world that have been recently described by scientists in 2021sted
- 8,700,000 species currently on the planet. Tragic as it is, 23 is not 'Mass'.Morning_star
- ^and yet ONE species fucks up the party for the rest of those MILLIONS of other speciesgrafician
- Not quite true, invasive species (Rats, mice etc) are the trigger for up to 60% of recent extinctions. E.g red squirrels vs grey squirrels.Morning_star
- Mint grows pretty easily... probably could have saved that one.BK
- I will not missed that bloody red woodpecker.utopian
- crypto mining brings them back...neverscared
- I wanna hear about the new species.Nairn
- We should put more money into creating new species.
Problem solved.palimpsest - Or get scientists into splitting species in the taxonomy. Like printing money. We decide what a species is anyway.palimpsest
- Give us solutions.palimpsest
- they could just be hiding really well.shapesalad
- 503 new species were described in 2020Morning_star
- That's the spirit!palimpsest
- We should be irradiating wildlife to introduce new variants. Let's speed this shit up a little.Nairn