Get the latest news from Computerworld delivered via email.Not wanting to be the bearer of bad tidings, the NZ Herald is reporting that 180 NZ plant species face extinction, up from 122 five years ago. only one specimen of a Kaka Beak variety was found in the wild in a recent survey.
Scientists are still finding new species, but when they do they are often on their way to extinction. They found one species with just five specimens - all female.
Meanwhile, efforts are under way to save venomous land mammals - rather hideous shrews called the Hispaniolan Solenodon and Hutia - in the Dominican Republic (film here).
And Russian scientists have a new theory for mass the extictions around the Permian Triassic boundary. Maybe it wasn't asteroids and volcanoes, but ... poisonous salt lakes.
