extinction

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 ...

Volcanoes or Asteroid? AI Ends Debate Over Dinosaur Extinction Event

Daisy Hips

Dartmouth scientists used an innovative computer model to suggest that volcanic activity, rather than an asteroid impact, was the primary ...

Long-beaked echidna named for Attenborough discovered in Indonesia

Abhinav Thawait

A team led by Oxford University scientists recently captured the first-ever photographic evidence of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a strange an ...

New analysis identifies largest threat to thousands of species facing extinction

Daisy Hips

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