Climate change claims its first mammal
According to researchers in Queensland, Australia, the white lemuroid possum has gone extinct – the first mammal victim of climate change. The creature (Hemibelideus lemuroids) lived in the high...
View ArticleThe age we made
London: There have been a few times in the history of mankind when we nearly died out as a species. Anthropologists call these events ‘bottlenecks’, times when the population of humans shrank – perhaps...
View ArticleAbandoning the pristine
In around 300 years time, 75% of all mammal species on Earth will have gone extinct. That’s the startling prediction if current rates of extinction continue and the animals already threatened or...
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