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4 days ago · The North Island giant moa ( Dinornis novaezealandiae) is among dozens of bird species that became extinct after the human settlement of New Zealand. This is a list of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years Before Present (about 9700 BCE) [a ...
May 24, 2024 · Passenger pigeon, migratory bird hunted to extinction by humans. Billions of these birds inhabited eastern North America in the early 1800s; migrating flocks darkened the skies for days. As settlers pressed westward, passenger pigeons were slaughtered by the millions. The last known individual died in 1914.
3 days ago · endangered species, any species that is at risk of extinction because of a sudden rapid decrease in its population or a loss of its critical habitat. Biodiverse regions that require protection on the grounds that they host a significant number of endangered species are called hot spots. (Read E.O. Wilson’s Britannica essay on mass extinction.)
May 29, 2024 · But the arrival of people in the late thirteenth century quickly drove all nine species of the bird to extinction. One victim was the little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis), which stood ...
13 hours ago · Jun 11, 2024, 07:05 PM. SANTIAGO - The Humboldt penguin population has dramatically decreased in areas along the central coast of Chile, making them one of the most vulnerable of the world's 18 ...
Jun 4, 2024 · sea cow, ( Hydrodamalis gigas ), very large aquatic mammal, now extinct, that once inhabited nearshore areas of the Komandor Islands in the Bering Sea. Steller’s sea cows were wiped out by hunters in the 18th century less than 30 years after they were first discovered by Arctic explorers. Today, the term sea cow is sometimes used to refer to ...
6 days ago · AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy estimates a 99.9% chance of AI leading to human extinction. He said no AI model so far has been safe, and it's unlikely that future models will be bug-free. Other AI ...
