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Guess the #mammals! Your hint: all of these mammals are now extinct ➕ all of these mammals lived in North Florida between 20 million & 9 million years ago. #paleontology #Museum30
Cold on the way to work this morning? Consider yourself lucky that you didn't live during the most extreme ice age of the last 550 My, at the end of the Ordovician Period. About 50% of marine genera went extinct, and stocks in the refrigeration industry plummeted. #paleoart
Going to start uploading some drawings of various extinct species (excluding dinosaurs). Here's the Thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea. Thought to be extinct since 1936. #extinctspecies
The extinct Passenger pigeons. #pigeon #passengerpigeon #extinction
Gomphotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidean that lived during the early Miocene in North America.
'Welcome to the Anthropocene'
3 trillion trees cut down
1000s of species extinct
37% of all land used for farming
Nitrogen fixation doubled
Atmospheric CO2 up 45%
Atmospheric CH4 up 150%
Micro-plastics in all oceans
Global temp. up over 1 deg C
And now >7.6 billion Humans
I've noticed that we often restore the babies of extinct animals with proportions much like our own tubby, dumpy offspring. This doesn't always fit fossil data, as evidenced by surprisingly leggy Protoceratops hatchlings (snout-vent c. 10 cm). #paleoart #dinosaurs
Mammals were nocturnal until dinosaur extinction, then emerged into daylight: https://t.co/JifSqAb5tP via @TelegraphSci
How do animators bring extinct species back to life?
@brendandjcad discusses for @ConversationUK - https://t.co/VuRynYbIx0
Another #SundayFishSketch, this time the extinct coelacanth, #Rebellatrix
Valuable comprehensive review: "Ecological and evolutionary legacy of megafaunal extinctions." @mauro_galetti et al. https://t.co/1E3pqJLVtP
It's #WorldRhinoDay! They could be extinct in 10 years! Lets not let that happen. Education needed - rhino horn cures nothing, it's keratin!
GORE WARNING
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Bob on their own can cause a few mass extinctions.
Snow leopards are now off the endangered list! But they are still classified as vulnerable to extinction. Still, it's the right direction ❤️
#OTD 1936, the last known thylacine died in captivity. These iconic images were drawn before their extinction (Gould, 1863) #ThylacineDay
Ralph Steadman’s Ark – Species Threatened With Extinction By Edward Lucie-Smith https://t.co/NkLf4dt9ag @BloomsburyBooks
The elephant bird was a huge flightless bird native to Madagascar. It was 3 metres tall & became extinct 1000 years ago.
(Photos: @Yale)
Will Methane, CH4, cause a quick spike in temps, w/ famines, extinctions & economic collapse in our lifetimes? #GW https://t.co/7vQnMacxcR