What is extinction?


https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/extinction/

Nicole Price

I decided to make my last blog post, here today, about extinction and what it is. 

Extinction is defined as ‘the dying out of a species’. It plays a very important, yet detrimental role in evolution. While extinction is not necessarily good it’s not entirely bad either. It happens a lot more than you’d think.  The number of declining species is constant. Meaning that we are losing an average number of species to extinction every year, century, and millennium. This helps drive evolution because the end of one species is the beginning of another. When done correctly extinction can make room for a newer, more evolved species. But the part that’s worrisome is the increasing number of mass extinctions that we are facing more and more everyday. Massive extinction is when a large number of a species dies out in a relatively short amount of time. These extinctions generally have a variety of different causes that can be prevented. 


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  1. Torï OlivarezApril 25, 2021 at 3:46 PM

    When I saw the title it really caught my attention because I’m really into all this what it’s been roaming our earth back in the day and it’s been very interesting because I’m into all of that dinosaurs prehistoric creatures. And I’ve always wanted to be like in archaeologists Or a paleontologist going up because of watching like all the Jurassic Park movies and watching dinosaur documentaries and all that stuff so it’s pretty interesting to me good job!

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