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A significant enigma in vertebrate evolution—why numerous major fish lineages appeared suddenly in the fossil record tens of millions of years post their presumed origins—has been…
Colossal’s so-called dire wolf huge life science Colossal Biosciences, which advertises itself as “the world’s first and only anti-extinction company,” has garnered significant attention this year,…
Homo floresiensis A recent study indicates that Liang Bua, the cave where this diminutive hominin species resided for approximately 140,000 years, was deserted during a significant…
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Wildlife broadcaster Chris Packham developed a deep connection with nature long before he could articulate it. As a child in his parents’ modest Southampton backyard, he…
Ludovic Slimak contributed to revealing the remains of Thorin, a Neanderthal Laure Metz The Last Neanderthal Ludovic Slimak (translated by Andrew Brown) (Polity Press (UK, September…
Recent studies indicate that dinosaurs acted as ecosystem engineers, fostering habitat openness during the late Cretaceous period. Their extinction around 66 million years ago likely triggered…
Large dinosaurs such as Titanosaurus significantly influenced their ecosystems Christian Jegou/Science Photography Library The extinction of dinosaurs had profound consequences for Earth, leading to significant alterations…
Thylacines were once found throughout Australia and New Guinea Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images The extinction of crucial genes over the millennia since humans arrived in Australia may…
Paleontologists have introduced a new genus and species of stem cell turtles, based on complete fossil shells discovered in the early Ale Holocene Denver Formation in…
Paleontologists have discovered a variety of animals, including saber-toothed predators, burrowing foragers, and large salamander-like creatures that flourished in southern Pangaea about 252 million years ago,…
Currently, only two species of sloths exist, but in the past, numerous species roamed the Earth, including one with a nose resembling a bottle and another…
Extinct Kangaroos from the genus Protemnodon A recent study by paleontologists from the University of Adelaide, Queensland Museum, and Monash University discovered that these creatures were…
Searching for the land refugia is essential for human survival during the hypothetical sixth mass extinction. Studying comparable crises in the past can provide insights, but…
A primitive amphibian called the Temnospondyls survived the aftermath of the end-of-permian mass extinction that occurred about 252 million years ago. University of Bristol. Reconstruction of…
Tropical riverbank ecosystems – what can be seen along rivers and wetlands – have now recovered within just two million years of North China's extinction. Terrestrial…
The end-Triassic extinction is, along with the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous events, the most severe mass extinctions of the past 270 million years. The exact mechanism of…
Diagram of the end-Permian extinction event, where extreme temperatures may have caused forests to die off.Richard Jones/Science Photo Library The end-Permian extinction, 250 million years ago,…
The asteroid, called the Chicxulub impactor, was a carbonaceous asteroid that formed outside the orbit of Jupiter. New Paper Published in the journal Science. Ankylosaurus magniventrisA…
Research has shown that the asteroid responsible for the mass extinction that annihilated the dinosaurs 66 million years ago originated from a distant region in the…
The asteroid, called the Chicxulub impactor, was a carbonaceous asteroid that formed outside the orbit of Jupiter. New Paper Published in the journal Science. Ankylosaurus magniventrisA…
Newly hatched stingrayJason Semmens/University of Tasmania One of the world's most endangered marine fish has been saved from extinction thanks to researchers who caught specimens in…
About 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, a 10 km-wide asteroid struck Earth near what is now the town of Chicxulub…
Over the past 50,000 years, terrestrial vertebrate faunas have experienced severe declines in large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring during the Late Pleistocene and early…
A team of British and American paleontologists has analysed the fossil record of ammonites (marine mollusks best known as snails) from the Late Cretaceous period (105…
Mammoth (Mammutus primigenius) is isolated Wrangel Island Mammoths were discovered off the coast of Siberia approximately 10,000 years ago and survived for over 200 generations before…
Things are getting better Iberian Lynx. About 20 years ago, the pointy-eared wild cat was on the brink of extinction, but as of Thursday, the International…
Think back to the last time you put together a puzzle. How long did it take you to connect the first piece? Did you aim for…
The Humboldt penguin populations along Chile’s central coast have seen a significant decline, making them one of the most at-risk species out of the world’s 18…
Extinction of Woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta Antiquitatis) This species, which lived at the beginning of the Holocene Epoch, remains shrouded in mystery, with conflicting evidence as to…
HONG KONG — Didn't fall from the Empire State Building. Instead, the giant ape, sometimes called the “real King Kong,” was driven to extinction by climate…
Gigantopythos black probably lived in a “mosaic of forest and grass” Garcia/Joanne Boyau (Southern Cross University) The largest known primates went extinct between 295,000 and 215,000…
Bateleur decreased by 87% in 3 generationsAndre Botha Dozens of African raptor species are in sharp decline, and many are now considered at risk of extinction,…