
"Humans Alone Were Responsible for This Big Atlantic" Topic
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Tango01  | 20 Dec 2019 11:33 a.m. PST |
…Seabird's Extinction, New Evidence Shows. "One of the northern hemisphere's most famous extinct birds could have disappeared at the hands of humans and humans alone. A nearly 3-foot-tall flightless bird called the great auk was once abundant in the north Atlantic Ocean, from the U.S. Atlantic Coast north to Greenland and Iceland and throughout European waters. It looked like a penguin—in fact, penguins take their name from an older term for the great auk. The bird went extinct in 1844 after hunters killed the last one. But there's still question as to whether the cause of decline was due to human behavior alone or whether other factors like changing climate helped. According to new evidence published in eLife on Tuesday, it was mostly the former…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Editor in Chief Bill  | 20 Dec 2019 11:43 a.m. PST |
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Tango01  | 26 Dec 2019 11:10 a.m. PST |
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