Originally posted on The Extinction Chronicles:
TOPICS:Artificial IntelligenceBiodiversityBioinformaticsEvolutionExtinction EventMachine LearningPaleontologyTokyo Institute Of Technology https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-discovers-surprising-patterns-in-earths-biological-mass-extinctions/ By TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DECEMBER 13, 2020 A new study applies machine learning to the fossil record to visualize life’s history, showing the impacts of major evolutionary events. This shows the long-term evolutionary and ecological impacts of major events of extinction and…

Originally posted on Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog:
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/man-shoots-and-kills-son-in-delaware-county-hunting-accident/530-05720927-45ba-4c3d-9b0d-a4efc45709b6 No charges will be filed against the man’s father. Credit: WBNS-10TVFile photoAuthor:?10TV Web StaffPublished:?9:03 PM EST December 9, 2020Updated:?10:35 AM EST December 10, 2020 DELAWARE COUNTY, Ohio — A man was shot and killed by his father in a hunting accident in Delaware County, according…

Horseracing Wrongs In 2017, the hallowed Saratoga Race Course recorded what was, at the time, a record 21 deaths. (The Gaming Commission did not begin releasing numbers till 2009, so who knows if it was truly a record.) There was, you might remember, a fair amount of handwringing, as the killing made national news. What…

Horseracing Wrongs Racing N Lace, a “vanned off” in the 7th at Los Alamitos Saturday, has been euthanized. She was but two years old; this was her fifth time under the whip. Even as industry apologist John Cherwa of the LA Times has (finally) taken to consistently reporting California deaths, he can’t help but mislead…

Horseracing Wrongs Turfway Park opened its “Holiday Meet” yesterday – with a kill. (The loathsome Paulick Report titled its post on the death, “Fatal Injury Mars Opening Night Of Tapeta Era At Turfway Park.”) Dream High, three, broke down in the 2nd – according to Kentucky’s equine medical director, Bruce Howard, “it was an open…

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Horseracing Wrongs Another American racetrack has closed its doors for good. Gulfstream Park West, formerly known as Calder Race Course, ran its final race Saturday. How we got here is, regarding the industry at large, quite instructive. Calder opened on May 6, 1971, to a capacity crowd of over 16,000. Over the years, those crowds,…