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Extinct first names: An exciting insight into the changing naming fashion
Extinct first names These baby names probably won’t come back A look back: These old German names are losing their luster in the modern world More From Joseph to Jacob,…
Extinct in Switzerland – after 400 years the northern bald ibis are back – News
Extinct in Switzerland – after 400 years, the bald ibis are back – News – SRF Skip to content Some elements on SRF.ch only work with activated JavaScript. News Switzerland…
The Crisis of Taxonomy – Why Many Species Are Going Extinct Before We Even Know Them – Knowledge
Contents Everyone is talking about biodiversity and species extinction. But species connoisseurs with their deep specialist knowledge are themselves an endangered species. That has consequences. Seraina Klopfstein’s specialty is special:…
Subspecies of the zebra – Researchers want to breed extinct quagga – News
According to DNA analyses, the quagga (Equus quagga quagga) was a subspecies of the zebra (Equus quagga). The last known quagga died in Amsterdam Zoo in 1883. In the “Quagga…
A species can go extinct twice: this is called societal extinction
A species can experience “societal extinction” even before its biological extinction. This is an important bias in our perception of the environment. The planet has already experienced five mass extinctions,…
Biodiversity: in the space of a few centuries, one in ten animal species could have become extinct
Benoît Fontaine is a research engineer. He works for the National Museum of Natural History and the French Office for Biodiversity. Along with two other researchers, he has just published…
Extinct volcano in La Palma – What remains is a lunar landscape – News
The Spanish authorities have declared the volcanic eruption on the holiday island of La Palma to be over. “The eruption is over,” said Julio Perez, the security chief responsible for…
Summit seeks a way out of the crisis: UN warns of one million species becoming extinct
Monday 11 October 2021 Summit is looking for a way out of the crisis UN warn of one million species becoming extinct The members of the United Nations have big…