The rapid extinction of giant animals including wombat ... Using various characteristics such as body size, weight, lifespan, survival rate, and fertility, they created population simulation ...

Animals in the Goldilocks zone -- neither too big, nor too small, but just the right size -- face a lower risk of extinction than do those on both ends of the scale Date: September 18, 2017 ...

The other important factors, according to the study, was the size of the habitat for the species — especially the smaller ones — and human activity. In a paper titled “Extinction risk is mos ...

Huge body size of some giant animals such as mammoths may have been one of the contributing factors to their extinction ... of animals of all sizes on a chart using data from the two features ...

More information: Alida de Flamingh et al, Genomic analysis supports Cape Lion population connectivity prior to colonial eradication and extinction, Journal of Heredity (2023). DOI: 10.1093/jhered ...

The large and the small are most at risk of extinction, on land and in water The biggest and the smallest of the world's animals are most at risk of dying out, according to a new analysis.

Size matters when it comes to extinction risk, with vertebrates in the so-called "Goldilocks zone" - not too big and not too small - winning out, say scientists. Action is needed to protect ...