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Oct 13, 2020

Study: More Than 500 Vertebrates Poised To Go Extinct

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks

We should save their DNA and resurrect them or keep in a bubble environment.


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The researchers behind the study warned that each time an animal goes extinct, it also threatens humanity’s continued survival.

“The current extinction crisis is one of the more urgent global environmental problems and the only one [that is] truly irreversible,” study author Gerardo Ceballos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Institute of Ecology told Earther. “Once a species is gone, there is no way to bring it back. Our paper indicates that is vastly speeding up.”

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