Word: extinctions
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...join them there. "If it comes down to my family or that bird," says Haire, "that bird's going to suffer. Where would we be right now if everything that lived on this earth still survived -- the saber-toothed tiger, the woolly mammoth? Things adapt or they become extinct." That applies to his industry as well, says Haire. "If we don't adapt, we'll become extinct...
...matter how many insults and threats he receives, Kerr has no intention of backing down in his fight. "I'll be damned," he declares, "if I'm going to let a species go extinct so loggers don't have to face up to the fact that it ain't going to be like...
...creatures eventually vanish, humans don't have a future, because we will either become extinct or evolve into another life form...
...basic "family" of particles is supplemented by two more exotic families, each of which has a parallel structure: two quarks, a type of electron and a type of neutrino. These two extra families are all but extinct in the modern universe, but they apparently existed in the searing heat of the Big Bang, and only accelerators can re-create them. In fact, all of the quarks in all of the families have been found or re-created -- except for the one called the top, which is believed to be the heaviest of all (its mass is at least 90 times...
...Pacific Northwest just as the small fish temporarily halted construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee. Last week a panel of federal scientists called for a halt to logging on up to 40% of the national forest land in Oregon, Washington and California to keep the owl from becoming extinct. An estimated 1,700 pairs survive, a drop of more than half the population since 1800. Even with protection, the slow-breeding owl would take a century to increase to 2,200 pairs...