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- Cosmopolitan distribution - Wikipedia
Such a taxon (usually a species) is said to have a cosmopolitan distribution, or exhibit cosmopolitanism, as a species; another example, the rock dove (commonly referred to as a 'pigeon'), in addition to having been bred domestically for centuries, now occurs in most urban areas around the world
- Some fairy tales may be 6000 years old - Science | AAAS
A new study, which treats these fables like an evolving species, finds that some may have originated as long as 6000 years ago The basis for the new study, published in Royal Society Open Science , is a massive online repository of more than 2000 distinct tales from different Indo-European cultures known as the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
- Nearly half of the worlds birds are on the decline, which . . .
The International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species has found that 1,409 bird species are considered threatened; 755 are vulnerable; 423 are endangered and
- Scientists Have Mapped The Worlds Oldest Known Family Tree . . .
A nearly 6,000-year-old tomb unearthed in England holds the remains of 27 family members, representing a five-generation lineage descended from one man and four women, researchers have found using DNA analysis
- Nearly 600 plant species have gone extinct in last 250 years
At least 571 species of seed-bearing plants have gone extinct around the world in the last two and a half centuries This number is nearly four times higher than the previous known estimate and
- Lists of organisms by population - Wikipedia
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1 2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described [11]
- One-Third of World’s Trees Face Extinction Risk, Report at . . .
More than a third of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive assessment of trees by the world’s leading scientific authority on the status
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