Word: extinctionism
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The world's oldest surviving reptiles, turtles are also ecologically invaluable critters. That's why Pritchard's work to save them from extinction--and soup--is as serious as it is offbeat. Like alligators and other large burrowing animals, turtles are "eco-system architects," says Pritchard. "A turtle's burrow...
Though TV sitcoms already have an incredibly fast-paced, joke-every-3-sec. tempo, in the future that will seem to have an almost Shoah-like pace. One possibility is that story lines will be junked altogether to get straight to the laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell...
In the most famous example of rock-on-rock catastrophe, the Earth was slammed 65 million years ago by a massive rock formation that created an enormous crater in the Yucatan Peninsula and probably caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Everyone recognizes the devastating effect of the dino-death asteroid...
"No! They're being fished to extinction. Didn't you hear about the boycott?"
X. peckii needs excellent vision in order to prevent its own extinction. "Sex pheromones from females probably help males locate the general neighborhood of a wasp," says Ehmer. But the male, who lives less than 6 hrs. after taking flight, must rely on his eyesight to zero in quickly on...