Essays on Extinction

The first question that must be posed when trying to crack the mystery of the mass extinction is to ask, throughout history were there any other occurences of this magnitude? The answer is a resounding yes. Altogether over time there has been about eight mass extinctions to large land dwelling vertebrates. The most recent was…

Extinction is defined as an approach in which a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) employments his or her records of conduct to put a behavior on extinction. Extinction is when help is withheld, and the behavior decreases to non-existence. Anybody with the knowledge can do the act of making use of extinction. Regularly, in any…

Naturalism in Mowats: A scientific look at survival of the Fittest, the human beast, and animal Hunting                Farley Mowat’s three novels Never Cry Wolf (1963), The People of the Deer (1952), and A Whale for the Killing all agree on the role of naturalism, the plight of the animal, the commercialization of hunting, ruthlessness…

ICE AGE EXTINCTIONS OF THE MEGAFAUNA During the last Ice Age before humans arrived, the North American continent belonged to various forms of enormous, fantastic creatures. By the end of the Ice Age, most of these large animals had become extinct. Numerous attempts have been made to explain the disappearance of these animals, but there…

Think of a world which existed 290 million years ago. As you look out over the terane in front of you, you think that you are on an alien planet. You see volcanoes spewing ash and lava. Beside them is the ocean which is swarming with many different species of echinoderms, bryozoans and brachiopods. As…

Can you picture our earth without forests? Many of us cant. Forests coverapproximately one fifth of the worlds land surface and play an important role inour everyday lives (Dudley 4). Forests provide us with many products andservices from helping maintain erosion to providing jobs for our citizens. Humanity depends on the survival of a healthy…

The La Brea Tar Pits, located near Hollywood, California, contain one of the universes greatest troves of Pleistocene dodos. Over one million castanetss have been recovered to so far. Dating from 38,000BC to 8,000 BC, the castanetss represent more than 420 species of animate being, including saber tooth Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelams, dire wolves,…

In the past three decades very few endangered species have been restored to viable populations. The black footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) was believed to be the most endangered mammal in the United States. It is a small mink sized carnivore of the Great plains and Intermountain basins. The ferrets appear to be obligatory predators on…

Something happened 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, something so devastating that it altered the course of life on earth. It seems like it happened so sudden, as geologic time goes, that almost all the dinosaurs living on earth disappeared. So how did these dominant creatures just die off? Was…

Amidst the growing hysteria of 2012 and other apocalyptic theories supervolcanoes are a growing topic of today. These mammoth sized volcanoes have plagued Earth’s history for millions of years causing numerous mass extinctions. The question then arises: will humans be next? By studying the Earth’s explosive history and analyzing how supervolcanoes impact ecosystems we can…