extinction, n.Trivia

Tigers are highly endangered --- More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.

Cats have contributed to the extinction of 33 different species.

Shark populations have decreased dramatically since the release of Jaws.

Mass extinction has happened five separate times in the last 500 million years

The woolly mammoth still roamed the earth while the pyramids were being built.

99.9 percent of all of the species that have ever lived are gone

Dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct

99.9% of all species that have existed on Earth are now extinct. Many of them died in five cataclysmic events.

Bananas today are a different strain from the pre-1960s banana which was wiped out by a disease

In 1963 there were only 417 bald eagles breeding pairs in the 48 states. They had been ravaged by the effects of the insecticide DDT.

Whales were saved from extinction by the discovery of oil as a fuel that could replace blubber

Blue whales were driven to near extinction; between 1904 to 1967, more than 350,000 were killed in the Southern Hemisphere

The extinction of mosquitoes would have little effect on the planet's ecosystem and would improve the health quality of developing countries.

Earth is likely accelerating toward its sixth mass extinction event; Animals and plants are dying at the quickest rate since the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago.

There's a supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park that would release ash so dense it would block the sun and send the world into another Ice Age if it were to erupt.