![]() Mass extinctions are just as severe as their name suggests. Orangutans are being wiped out as their habitat continues to disappear. In the normal course of evolution, such extinctions would have taken up to 10,000 years, they said. He and his team found that in the past 100 years, more than 400 vertebrate species went extinct. “173 species is 25 times more extinct species than you would expect under the normal, background, extinction rate,” he told CNN in an email. Gerardo Ceballos González, a professor of ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and one of the authors of the study, said approximately 173 species went extinct between 20. But the findings published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) show that the rate at which species are dying out has accelerated in recent decades. ![]() ![]() Humans have already wiped out hundreds of species and pushed many more to the brink of extinction through wildlife trade, pollution, habitat loss and the use of toxic substances. ![]() Bumblebees are going extinct because of the climate crisis, but there are easy ways to help ![]()
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