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Ancient Extinction Holds Clues to Today’s Climate Crisis

Daisy Hips

Researchers found clues in Italian limestone about a Jurassic-era marine extinction caused by volcanic CO2 emissions, paralleling today’s climate change ...

Great megafauna mystery solved? Humans really did drive ancient giants to extinction

Daisy Hips

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other ...

Was Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Seen on New Video? Experts Weigh In

Gregory Daniels

New footage showing what is being claimed to be an extinct Tasmanian tiger in the wild has attracted huge speculation ...

What It’ll Take to Create 21st-Century Mammoths, Dodos, and Thylacines

Daisy Hips

Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the ‘de-extinction’ company announced plans to resurrect the ...

Bone from extinct apex predator, saber-toothed tiger, found in MS

Daisy Hips

‘Even over the American lion, they had crazy agility. They would not have had any trouble chasing down anything they ...

Scientists Attempt to Pull a Jurassic Park on Extinct Animal

Daisy Hips

Australia’s thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian tiger, was deemed extinct in 1986, 50 years after the last known ...

Mystery of why world’s largest ape went extinct finally solved, scientists say

Daisy Hips

The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing environment, with ...

The True Culprits Behind the Fall of Earth’s Largest Beasts

Daisy Hips

Prehistoric people are attacking an elephant. New research shows that humans and not the climate caused a sharp decline in ...

Quarter of world’s freshwater fish species at risk of extinction, researchers warn

Daisy Hips

Thousands of species of freshwater fish are at risk of extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in ...

Ancient Extinction Mirrors Today’s Ocean Crisis: Deoxygenation’s Role Unveiled

Daisy Hips

A study in Nature Geosciences reveals that oceanic anoxia significantly contributed to marine extinctions during the Triassic–Jurassic period, with current ...

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