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An additional cause that may be specific to insects is light pollution (research in that area is ongoing). [7] [8] [9] Most commonly, the declines involve reductions in abundance, though in some cases entire species are going extinct. The declines are far from uniform.
T. gigantea is the largest giant ant ever found, larger than the biggest extant giant ants, which are the five-centimetre-long (2.0 in) driver ants of the genus Dorylus, found in Central and East Africa. [1] [6] The fossils indicate that the males grew up to 3 centimetres (1.2 in) and the queens grew to 7 centimetres (2.8 in). It had a wingspan ...
As of July 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 58 extinct species, 46 possibly extinct species, and one Extinct in the wild species of insect. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Caddisflies
Eight of the extinct bird species were found in Hawaii, including the Po`ouli, which was last seen in 2004. The Po`ouli is the most recently seen species of all 21 animals on the list.
Gracilidris is a genus of dolichoderine ants with nocturnal behaviour; thought to have gone extinct 15-20 million years ago, they have been found in Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina and were described in 2006. [4]
Like several other invasive ants, such as the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), the big-headed ant (Pheidole megacephala), the little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata), and the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile), the yellow crazy ant is a "tramp ant", a species that easily becomes established and dominant in new habitat due to traits ...
A 2017 analysis found that the mountain goat populations of coastal Alaska would go extinct sometime between 2015 and 2085 in half of the considered scenarios of climate change. [88] Another analysis found that the Miombo Woodlands of South Africa are predicted to lose about 80% of their mammal species if the warming reached 4.5 °C (8.1 °F).
Despite the world's last captive thylacine dying in 1936, the secretive animal wasn't declared extinct until 1986. More recently in 2007 the Baiji dolphin , a rare river dolphin native to China ...