A diver has died after an attack by a suspected 4.5-meter shark near Michaelmas Island. It is the third fatal ‌shark attack ⁠in ⁠Australia in three weeks.

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    12 hours ago

    Meanwhile, 2.700 people die DAILY from mosquito bites (from disease they transmit).

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      We desperately need to find a way to exterminate these wretched creatures from the face of the planet. If there was ever a reason to deliberately make something go extinct, this has got to be the one.

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        Mosquitoes are part of food chain. They causes harm to us, but making them extinct is not an option unless we know how to manage the gap in food chain it will leave behind.

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          There’s not any scientific consensus on that, and most biologists believe that they are in fact not an essential part of any other organism’s diet.

          There’s something to be argued in favor of their existence, however: they are the single most significant reason humans haven’t developed more of natural habitats like the rain forest.