Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

“Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population that followed…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“45,000 Sapiens settle Australia. Extinction of Australian megafauna. 30,000 Extinction of Neanderthals. 16,000 Sapiens settle America. Extinction of American megafauna.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For example, the megafauna of New Zealand – which had weathered the alleged ‘climate change’ of c.45,000 years ago without a scratch – suffered…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as “substantial biodiversity losses” that occur rapidly and are “global in extent.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“One of the great challenges in reconstructing a mass extinction is making sense of what happened when. In the same way we have divided…

— Bill Nye

“It’s] pretty clear that times of high carbon dioxide—and especially times when carbon dioxide levels rapidly rose—coincided with the mass extinctions,” writes University of…

— Peter Brannen

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of…

— E. O. Wilson

“the center of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity, there’s an exhibit embedded in the floor. The exhibit is arranged around…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“How will humanity react when it realizes that it has survived an extinction event?”

— Bobby Adair

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals,…

— Robert T. Bakker

There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale,…

— Noam Chomsky