I hope this doesn't sound like a totally inane question? But I recently read that we are losing approximately
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We have entered a period of rapid extinctions as has happened at intervals throughout the earth's history. This time it is caused by cumulative human impacts on the planet versus the older ones like massive volcanoes and large comets striking the earth. The planet will rebound. In the short term, colonizing species that can adapt to a relatively wide variety of environmental conditions will fill in for the more selective species that will be lost as their habitats shrink or as pollution affects them more than others. Get used to rats, crows, starlings, carp, algae, and (above all else) bacteria. Speciation is occurring all the time, just like extinction. The difference is that it takes much longer to isolate gene pools of selected individuals and create new species versus extinction...which can happen very quickly (especially for species that only live in very specialized environments or for things like plants that can't fly away when their mountain home gets too warm).
Evolution is always occurring, but I'm certain that we are losing species more quickly than we are regaining them... :-/
well for one there are the ligers and tigons...but nature didn't do it...
but for real there are new species being discovered everyday...and even when they say the species is gone, often they have a way to come back...
also they say the Anisazi are gone but you can't tell them that...
I don't know but I hope so. I hope in 50 yrs. we still have a planet, organisms, & animals to still look at. I'm affraid global warming is going to ruin everything.
That was a lie, we are not "loosing" 3 species a day. Just because some dopehead in Berkley cannot find it does not -mean it is extinct.. Yes we have found hundreds of as yet un-identified species in recent years. Evolution is a lie of the religion Atheism.. Darwin (who said himself that "Origin of the Species" was fiction) is their high priest/ prophet.
The World Conservation Union suggests an annual loss of 2300 species.
New species are not necessarily developing, but are being discovered. For example, more than 350 new species were discovered in Borneo over the last decade. Also, newly-discovered deep-sea species have been found in the Bermuda Triangle.
Add: Contrary to the above post, Darwin never recanted his theory. It's a myth.
No. Well, if you count viruses and bacteria, then yes.
the new species that are developing are the ones that are resistant to drugs.
New species are also developing due to things like DDT, and they are like frogs with five legs, lizzards with two heads.
I suppose they proliferate until we can solve the problems which are slow at being solved.
Some of the new species we're finding could be those from ancient times because people are now opening coffins from ancient digs. I heard some plague like species were found and re-started in the labs so in case they come back we'd have the antibiotics.
Humanity is spreading across the face of the Earth and taking up the space once used by many other species. Who knows? In a few centuries, there may be only humans and their pets on this planet, with the exception of animals kept in zoos and for entertainment.
This is sad, but it may become fact. Look into what is being done to preserve other species-- without putting them in zoos or other human-run facilities. How are they being kept wild? We cannot take over this planet! It is not ours alone.
Of course they are. We're just not aware, YET
Ebola, bird flu and AIDS and new antibiotic resistant bacterias and viruses.
no we are not gaining any species. If there is a "new" species that means it was only recently discovered and that usually happens in the tropical rain forests.
Even though we are finding new species everyday, yes many are dieing everyday. The new ones we are finding are very small and rare, and many are not NEW they just haven't been documented or found by modern humans yet that documented it. There was a recent rediscovery of a prehistoric fish found in two seas off of Africa and off of India (obviously it's not new and it wasn't extinct however it evaded us for these many of years but I believe due to the carbon levels and heat their numbers are rising and so people are catching them more when fishing, but before they didn't have enough numbers to be stumbled upon)
Anyways, I think more are being killed off then being created. And there's not enough mutations to keep up with the changes either... we're loosing valuable species.
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