Sentences with phrase «near extinction years»

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Once the climate started to improve, after 70,000 years ago, we came back from this near - extinction event.

In most species the population grows for three years, then crashes to near - extinction in the fourth.

The story of the black - footed ferret's near extinction and its discovery, rescue and reintroduction — all in less than 15 years — is an exciting one.

The previous extinction occurred about 65 million years ago and it is said that there is the possibility of another extinction in the near future [ii].

Public libraries have been teetering on the brink of extinction for years, a fact that doesn't seem likely to improve in the near future given the economic situations that lead local governments to take aim at the libraries as a primary target.

The answer may lie with this pinniped's brush with near extinction hundreds of years ago.

But in the last 15 years the Humpback whales have been making a welcome come back from near extinction.

Day by day, nearing the end of extinction, these people managed to create memory after memory, adventure after adventure, and as we moved on to the «reality» of things, the year 2012 for them was unarguably traveling... like it's the end of the world.

Elephant seals were hunted to near extinction, but, after 150 years, they began returning to Point Reyes, and now the population of the colony here grows about 16 % a year.

The story picks up four years after the conclusion of Resistance 2, humanity is near extinction and Joe has been vilified and discharged from the army for killing the hero Hale, and the new protagonist is doing his best to live in peace with his family and other survivors.

In addition, the Paleoeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum was accompanied by CO2 concentration near 1000 ppm, and it resulted in the worst extinction event in the past 90 million years.

Then suddenly, in the last ten thousand years — a mere 0.4 % eye blink of time — our population increased over 1000 times, we decimated the earth's stocks of non-renewable resources, we cut down over 90 % of the planet's forests, we fished her oceans to the edge of extinction, and we live in a near - constant state of conflict with each other.

If they win, the consequences will be more horrifying than anything we've experienced since the near human extinction event of about 110,000 years ago, when there were about 10,000 of us left.

How dare you hunt such creatures to near extinction when no one needs to eat this meet that tastes like old steak soaked in seawater for a hundred years anyway?»

This possible extinction event is commonly called the «Sixth Mass Extinction,» because biodiversity crashes of similar magnitude have happened previously only five times in the 550 million years that multi-cellular life has been abundant on Earth: near the end of the Ordovician (~ 443 million years ago), Devonian (~ 359 million years ago), Permian (251 million years ago), Triassic (~ 200 million years ago), and Cretaceous (~ 66 million years agoextinction event is commonly called the «Sixth Mass Extinction,» because biodiversity crashes of similar magnitude have happened previously only five times in the 550 million years that multi-cellular life has been abundant on Earth: near the end of the Ordovician (~ 443 million years ago), Devonian (~ 359 million years ago), Permian (251 million years ago), Triassic (~ 200 million years ago), and Cretaceous (~ 66 million years agoExtinction,» because biodiversity crashes of similar magnitude have happened previously only five times in the 550 million years that multi-cellular life has been abundant on Earth: near the end of the Ordovician (~ 443 million years ago), Devonian (~ 359 million years ago), Permian (251 million years ago), Triassic (~ 200 million years ago), and Cretaceous (~ 66 million years ago) Periods.

Endangered species such as the Florida Panther are nearing extinction because of the numbers of big cats hit by automobiles each year.

Only two right whales have been sighted in the last 50 years at Cape Farewell Ground, where they had been hunted to near extinction prior to the adoption of protective measures.

Rhinos Nearing Extinction After 50 Years of Poaching Rhino poaching, often practiced to remove the animal's horn, has helped cause an extraordinary decline in populations throughout Africa and Asia — for example, there is thought to be about 130 Javan rhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in the wild.