The Sixth Extinction
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[MUSIC]The California Golden Bear The Great AukThe Passenger pigeon The Tasmanian tigerThe Pinta Island tortoise The Golden toadAll dead. And the killer is right there in the room with you.[MUSIC]The walls of France’s Lascaux cave hold some of humankind’s earliest art, almostmythical species: a wooly rhinoceros, enormous-antlered Megaloceros elk and massive aurochs. The artistslived on, became us, but those cave walls are the last place that those animals still run. They’regone. Extinct.We all pretty much understand extinction, it’s when a species kicks the proverbialbucket, it rides off into the great biological sunset, bites the dust from whence it cameand shall return, which is all just a pretty way of saying that every last one of themdies.Even kids are u...
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[MUSIC]The California Golden Bear The Great AukThe Passenger pigeon The Tasmanian tigerThe Pinta Island tortoise The Golden toadAll dead. And the killer is right there in the room with you.[MUSIC]The walls of France’s Lascaux cave hold some of humankind’s earliest art, almostmythical species: a wooly rhinoceros, enormous-antlered Megaloceros elk and massive aurochs. The artistslived on, became us, but those cave walls are the last place that those animals still run. They’regone. Extinct.We all pretty much understand extinction, it’s when a species kicks the proverbialbucket, it rides off into the great biological sunset, bites the dust from whence it cameand shall return, which is all just a pretty way of saying that every last one of themdies.Even kids are u...
