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Old 05-13-2010, 04:20 PM   #1
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As global temperatures rise, world's lizards are disappearing: 20 percent of all liza

After decades of surveying Sceloporus lizard populations in Mexico, an international research team has found that rising temperatures have driven 12 percent of the country's lizard populations to extinction. An extinction model based on this discovery also forecasts a grim future for these ecologically important critters, predicting that a full 20 percent of all lizard species could be extinct by the year 2080.



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