Birds..
In the past 500 years of recorded history we have seen over 100 species of birds become extinct, and this rate of extinction seems to be increasing. The situation worst in some of the Pacific Islands where over 30% of indigionous speices are now extinct.
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Diatrama |
Archaeopteryx |
There are today about 10,000 species of birds, with roughly 1200 considered to be under threat of extinction. Except for a dozen or so species the threat is man-made. In that time we have seen the loss of some of the most impresive birds that ever lived the Haast Eagle, Moa, Aepyornis, Great Auk and the Dodo to name just a few.
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Haast Eagle - Moa |
Aepyornis |
It is estimated that only point one of one percent of all the speices that have ever lived are alive today. Indicating that extinction is a natural state, that all speicies eventually go into decline and fail for whatever reasons climatic changes genetics or natural disasters in some way nature finds a way to dispence with each one and replace it with something else.
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Teratorn |
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Sinosauropteryx |
Microraptor |
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