India, Sept. 7 -- New study predicts 558 species of mammals to be extinct by turn of century

Australia and the Caribbean are already in the middle of a 'second wave' of mammalian extinctions, a new study has claimed, while predicting that the world would see 558 mammalian extinctions by 2100.

"By the year 2100, we predict all areas of the world to have entered a second wave of extinctions. Our simulation results indicate that this additional wave of anthropogenic extinctions may be much greater than the currently increased rates, by several orders of magnitude," the authors of the study said.

The study The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity was published on September 4, 2020, in Science Advances .

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