While only around 2% of the world's bird species have gone extinct since 1500, the year Kittelberger's analysis begins, even more had already disappeared by then. Before 1500, however, there is ...

A total of 777 animals have gone extinct since the beginning of the modern era in 1500, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. Some of those extinctions ...

While only around 2% of the world’s bird species have gone extinct since 1500, the year Kittelberger’s analysis begins, even more had already disappeared by then. Before 1500, however ...

By setting off such chains of events, humans have directly or indirectly caused most bird extinctions since 1500, the researchers said. They traced only one subspecies extinction to a natural ...

study suggests A 2022 study led by Cowie and published in the journal Biological Reviews estimated that up to 13% of known species have gone extinct since 1500 — well below the 75% mass ...

Scientists count 881 animal species as having gone extinct since around 1500, dating to the first records held by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - the global scientific ...

The model suggested that around 1,300–1,500 bird species — about 12% of the total worldwide — have become extinct since the Late Pleistocene (which was an epoch roughly 126,000–12,000 ...

So when you take into account how other species may be affected by extinction, it really hits home just how much biodiversity has been lost.” Species losses have been particularly extreme on islands ...

Seventy-three genera of land-dwelling vertebrates, Ceballos and Ehrlich found, have gone extinct since 1500 AD. Birds suffered the heaviest losses with 44 genus extinctions, followed in order by ...

Additionally, 89 of the assessed species have gone extinct since 1500 C.E. Of these, 22 were found in the U.S., and 15 each in Mexico and the Philippines. All 15 from the Philippines were from ...