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Extinctions and shrinking habitat are driving 'rewilding' in cities

Extinctions and shrinking habitat are driving ‘rewilding’ in cities

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DETROIT (AP) — In a bustling metropolitan area of ​​4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into secluded thickets to study Detroit’s most elusive inhabitants — coyotes , foxes, raccoons and skunks among them. Harris and his colleagues have placed surveillance cameras in the wooded sections of 25 city parks over the …

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The arrival of tree roots may have triggered mass extinctions in the ocean

The arrival of tree roots may have triggered mass extinctions in the ocean

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The first land plants to develop penetrating root systems, around 400 million years ago, could very well have triggered a series of mass extinctions in the ocean. The expansion of plants on dry land was a great moment on Earth, completely restructuring the terrestrial biosphere. According to researchers from Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis …

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Mass extinctions may have been caused by evolution of tree roots

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Evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions, according to new research. Geologists are finding parallels between ancient extinction events on a global scale and modern threats to Earth’s oceans. A series of mass extinctions that rocked Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period more than 300 million years ago may have …

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