Discovery News: Big Question for 2012: What Animals Could Go Extinct?


The Golden Toad was last seen on May 15, 1989, and is presumed to be extinct.
Photo Credit: news.discovery.com

The world's biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, according to the most recent Global Species Assessment and many other related studies. As a result, more extinctions are predicted for 2012.

While extinctions have been occurring on our planet since close to the beginning of life on Earth, we are now essentially living through an experiment with no predictable outcome. The prior five major mass extinctions, for the most part, happened over relatively long periods of geological time.

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 1/1/2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: extinctions 2012 biodiversity Earth species
 

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