‘The Big Crunch’

Dodo bird

“Only five times in Earth’s history has life been as threatened as it is now.” –Stuart Pimm, professor of conservation ecology, Duke University

Quick, name an animal that has gone extinct. Most of us probably think of dinosaurs first; but science has absolved humans of all blame in that tragic event, as we weren’t even around yet. How about something that we’ve exterminated since our relatively recent appearance in our planet’s 4.5 billion years of evolution? Dodos?

[source: http://www.sustainableindustries.com/articles/2012/07/big-crunch]