Asteroid Extinction Threatens Species

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The big idea: on Remembrance Day for Lost Species, here’s why it matters

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The Christmas Island pipistrelle was a tiny bat the size of a prune that lived only on Christmas Island , an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean .

The date on which this bat went extinct was my 23rd birthday.

The Bramble Cay melomys became the first mammalian extinction caused by anthropogenic climate change after rising sea levels led to the flooding of its island home.

Plectostoma sciaphilum, a Malaysian species so obscure it didn’t even have a common name, was a snail the size of a sesame seed.

Another species that recently went extinct was the Catarina pupfish, a tiny fish that lived in a small lagoon in Mexico .

A Remembrance Day for Lost Species is also, then, an opportunity to raise awareness for lesser known and less conventionally appealing species.

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