Research group suggests modern extinction rate may be higher than thought

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 08:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from a wide variety of institutions in France has concluded that it appears likely that approximately seven percent of all modern invertebrates have gone extinct. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team outlines the research they conducted on land snail extinctions and how they extrapolated what they found to apply to non-marine invertebrates extinctions worldwide in the modern age.

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