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Whether or not the huge creature known as the Loch Ness monster is a living dinosaur, we DO know that millions of years ago, huge carnivorous reptiles resembling Nessie lived in Australia. If the current Nessie isn’t real, we may soon be able to recreate her: A scientific breakthrough in DNA will make it possible for creatures that have been extinct since the Ice Age 30,000 years ago to roam the earth again?like Nessie does now?

BBC news quotes researcher Australian Benjamin Kear as saying, “Imagine a compact body with four flippers, a reasonably long neck, small head and short tail, much like a reptilian seal.” This creature grew to be around 16 feet long and had incredibly sharp teeth, so maybe we should hope that today’s Nessie IS a myth.
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When we think of extinction events, we usually think about the asteroid that hit the earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. But it turns out the worst extinction since that happened 65 million years ago is going on right now?and we humans are the cause of it.

Robert Roy Britt writes in LiveScience.com that changes to the earth’s biodiversity have happened faster in the past 50 years than at any time in human history. Today, over 16,000 entire species face extinction in the near future.
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Palentologists have avoided connecting the great extinctions that brought the Pleistocene to an end 15,000 years ago to climate change by claiming that they were due to a few thousand hunter-gatherers killing millions of animals, all within a span of a few hundred years. Now climate is finally being recognized as the key to the extinctions.
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Half of the 114 species that have become extinct, despite the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, once lived in Hawaii. The Center for Biological Diversity says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service knowingly delays putting species on the endangered list “to avoid political controversy even when it knew the likely result would be the extinction of the species.” Extinction could happen to us too?unless we learn how to lengthen our telomeres.
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