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...modest cast of nonstars, and he tried shooting every dialogue scene in no more than five takes. But the expert exertions of the 483 other artists and technicians listed in the credits ensured that Jurassic Park would cost about $65 million, or $1 for every year since dinosaurs became extinct...
...antelope discovered in a Vietnamese forest last year belong to a new species. It's the first new species in the family that includes cows, deer and antelope to be found in at least half a century. The bones were reasonably fresh, implying that the creature is not extinct -- although no Westerner has yet seen one alive...
Princeton University physicist J. Richard Gott has used standard assumptions about the statistics of populations to calculate that there is a 95% chance that humanity will become extinct somewhere between 5,100 and 7.8 million years from...
...hardly new. The British anatomist Richard Owen first coined the term dinosaur (from the ancient Greek deinos, "terrible," and sauros, "lizard") in 1841 to characterize gigantic fossilized bones found several decades earlier. Dinosaur bones and footprints had actually been known for centuries, but were ascribed to dragons or extinct lizards or even giant ravens. Owen realized that these enormous bones belonged to a previously unknown and long-extinct group of animals related to but different from lizards. Dinosaurs became an immediate rage in London. An 1854 exhibition at Hyde Park's Crystal Palace featured a number of life-size dinosaur...
...population keeps building at the current rate, the most ominous effect is that millions of life-forms will become extinct. Humans, no matter how well behaved, cannot help crowding out natural systems. A survey of 50 countries by environmental researcher Paul Harrison showed that habitat loss, the most important factor leading to extinctions, rises in direct proportion to the density of the individuals that make up various species. Big animals often range over hundreds of square miles and increasingly collide with settlements. Smaller species, which make up most of nature's diversity, are affected by human activities in countless ways...