Ever since man has started settling and developing they have grown in population and a reflection of that is the decline of certain species. Many species have become extinct before and since the dinosaurs. However the extinctions today compared to those that took place millions of years ago are remarkably different. A lot has changed since the time of dinosaurs. Norman Myers once said that "Current extinctions are crucially different from those in the past." …showed first 75 words of 2069 total…

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