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Guadalupe Caracara
Distribution: Guadalupe Island
Conservation Status: Extinct
Diet: Carnivore
Also known as: Quelili, Calalie, Mourning Caracara
Average Lifespan in the Wild: Extinct
Romanised Name: Guadarūpekarakara
Japanese Name: グアダルーペカラカラ
Picture of a red squirrel in the absence of the real thing. Sometimes understanding biodiversity means noticing the absence of things and sadly we have an absence of red squirrels. #1000Postcards #RedSquirrels #Extinction #Biodiversity #Mammals
The pig-footed bandicoot was one of the smallest marsupials, at just 20cm long. They became extinct in the 1950s due to European settlers.
(Credit: John Gould)
@TKOpresents EVE OF EXTINCTION!
Writers: #SalSimeone, #SteveSimeone
Art: @niK_IT, @IsaacGoodhart
Color Art: Nik Virella , @Ruth_Redmond
Letterer: @CommentAiry
Cover Art: @DTNart
Editor: @SGirner
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The conclusion to #Auktober with perhaps the greatest auk, the extinct Great Auk. Absent from the world since 1844, they were large, flightless, and hunted to oblivion for their fat and feathers.
Greta Thunberg
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money..."
Watching Mao Mao’s “Sick Mao” reminded me how wacky and slapstick-y sick day episodes used to be in cartoons. Not to say they’re extinct now; I just don’t see too many of them nowadays. Like he used his sneeze as a spirit bomb final attack I just can’t even right now like DUDE
Outstanding review from Erica and Justin Sonnenburg on the "vulnerability of the industrialised microbiota", about the slow extinction of the human gut microbiota and its consequences 😳
https://t.co/5Mxmn3Csez
Study: Asteroid Impact, Not Volcanism, was Key in Driving End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction
https://t.co/3sXm3eluGX
#paleontology #science
Half of North America's bird species are heading for extinction by 2029.
So; rhis week's picture is part of a pair of species. This one is called a flyer, real basic name, but they are supposed to be one of the two land animals that existed before others evolved and nearly hunted them to extinction.
Tasmanian Tiger wants to not be extinct. What do you think? This is also 1/4 of a #FursuitFriday post
#FossilFriday Mutagenesis in land plants during the end-Triassic mass extinction https://t.co/aLp03YDjxg
#palynology
Oh Lordy! Its Ye Olde Extinctione Rebellion - a colourful election march between Mansion House and the Guild Hall, #London October 25th 1781
Thread: Survival yes or no?
The planet will be OK
Many humans won’t
Most animals won’t
The planet will find a new balance but how much of life as we know still exist?
It’s our choice to survive or not
#6thMassExtinction
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateChange
https://t.co/U3NO8H9vY4