Humans are driving large marine species to extinction

Humans are driving large marine species to extinction –

A new analysis of the previous five big extinction events as compared to the current “sixth extinction” finds a big difference between them: In the earlier events, either the smaller species were the ones to vanish or the wasn’t a pattern to which marine species were lost; today, we’re losing the sea’s largest species—and that could have a disproportionate effect on ecosystems for millions of years. The Guardian