#extinction level event

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Busta Rhymes released his third studio album E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front December 15, 1998

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Sumatra: Indonesia floods were 'extinction level' for rare orangutans

Indonesia’s deadly flooding was an “extinction-level disturbance” for the world’s rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects, scientists warned on Friday. Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, confined to a small range in part of Indonesia’s Sumatra. One dead suspected tapanuli orangutan has already been found in the region, conservationists told AFP. “The loss of even a single orangutan is a devastating blow to the survival of the species,” said Panut Hadisiswoyo, founder and chairman of the Orangutan Information Centre in Indonesia. And analysis of satellite imagery combined with knowledge of the tapanuli’s range suggests that flooding last month which killed nearly 1,000 people may also have devastated wildlife in the Batang Toru region. The scientists focused on the so-called West Block, the most densely populated of three known tapanuli habitats, and home to an estimated 581 tapanulis before the disaster. There, “we think that between six and 11 percent of orangutans were likely killed,” said Erik Meijaard, a longtime orangutan conservationist. “Any kind of adult mortality that exceeds one percent, you’re driving the species to extinction, irrespective of how big the population is at the start,” he told AFP.

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We probably deserve it

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The silver lining is that there was a lot of impact glass delivered straight to everyone's doorstep.

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"There are so many reasons to doubt the Biblical creation story. For example... if God wants to punish us for Adam's fall, why can't he leave his other creatures out of it? The suffering endured by animals can often defy words... What did they do wrong?"

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Little jogabsha’s early dinosaur drawings

Used to always draw any dinosaur scene with a volcano and a meteor lol. The way I did the vines on the tree is kind of interesting. Love my noodly T. rex and derpy gravity defying brachiosaur (I didn’t know they lived desperate from eachother at the time)