{"id":87112,"date":"2020-01-11T11:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T05:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2020-01-11T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T05:59:42","slug":"a-giant-fish-is-declared-extinct-how-do-scientists-conclude-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-giant-fish-is-declared-extinct-how-do-scientists-conclude-that\/","title":{"rendered":"A Giant fish is declared extinct \u2014 how do scientists conclude that?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Chinese researchers, based on the Red List criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), have concluded that Chinese Paddlefish are extinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chinese paddlefish, also known as the Chinese swordfish lived in Yangtze River in China. It dates back 200 million years.<\/li><li>The researchers estimate that it became functionally extinct by 1993, and extinct sometime between 2005 and 2010.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Categories of Extinction by IUCN:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Extinct in the wild:<\/strong> a species survives only in a captive environment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Locally extinct<\/strong>: species has ceased to exist in a particular area but may exist in other areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Functionally extinct<\/strong>: the species continues to exist but it has too few members to enable it to reproduce meaningfully enough to ensure survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Globally extinct<\/strong>: a species has no surviving member anywhere.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Chinese researchers, based on the Red List criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), have concluded that Chinese Paddlefish are extinct. Facts: Chinese paddlefish, also known as the Chinese swordfish lived in Yangtze River in China. It dates back 200 million years. The researchers estimate that it became functionally extinct by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-giant-fish-is-declared-extinct-how-do-scientists-conclude-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Giant fish is declared extinct \u2014 how do scientists conclude that?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4850],"class_list":["post-87112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-categories-of-extinction","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704743737},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}