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Does global warming will make the lizards extinct?
I heard that global warming will vanish the existence of lizards. Is it true?
7 Answers
- οικοςLv 78 years agoFavourite answer
Maybe, although it might take an awful lot of warming. I saw a website that predicted trouble for turtles because of increased temperature in the nests. Sex determination in turtles is controlled by temperature and higher temperatures lead to more females. If the males disappeared, it would only be a matter of time before the species did too. I don't know how applicable that would be to lizards, though.
- 8 years ago
Look the word 'Lizard' refers to a very large number of species. Global warming (and other factors) will make some of them extinct but some might infact benifit from such factors. If you mean the common house lizard than rest easy - we'll be extinct sooner.
- Jeff MLv 78 years ago
I think you mean amphibians not lizards.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6126/1371.su...
http://www.savethefrogs.com/chytrid/
http://www.life.illinois.edu/ib/451/Pounds%20(2006...
And it's not "will global warming make amphibians extinct?" It's more like "Will the extinction rate of amphibians continue to increase in a warming atmosphere?"
- KanoLv 78 years ago
I very much doubt it lizards were here many millions of years before us and I expect they will be here after we are gone.