Posted on 04/19/2024 1:59:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BISBEE, Ariz. — Boots dusty, lungs heaving, Dr. John Wiens searched the boulders of a desolate Arizona mountaintop for the last survivors of a 3-million-year-old lizard population — then said the words that both confirmed his life's work and broke his heart.
"They're not there," he said. "It seems like the species is now extinct."
The loss of plant and animal species on Earth is happening at a speed never seen in human history, according to the United Nations. That includes the likely extinction of the lizards Wiens has studied for 10 years — the population of Yarrow's spiny lizards found in the Mule Mountains of southern Arizona.
"There's a lot of species on Earth, and we're going to lose a lot of them because of climate change," said Weins, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona. "It's catastrophic."
"As human beings, in the developed world, we all sort of have some responsibility for this," Wiens said.
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I have a neighbor who looks reptilian and I haven’t seen her in weeks. Hmmm...
They’ll move further north.
With sea levels rising
as the are, it’s no
wonder this lizard never
learned how to swim.
I call Horse turds on this one. If it gets too hot, they live at higher elevations. Animals aren’t so stupid that they just stay where you want them too. Wait until the temps head back down again.... The climate is a cycle.
Awhile back, Greenland lost its grape plants.
Ping!
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