- Scientists develop newer quantitative measures for when a species has gone extinct - the Blue Macaw parrot (star of the 2011 animated film 'Rio') has gone extinct in the wild thanks to deforestation - the species nests in now-rare 200- to 300-year-old caraibeira trees https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0006320718308012 3 comments science