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Species Extinction
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
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Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains.
More than 90% of human faces are home to mites that live in our skin pores. These friendly guests might be merging with us.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
Volcanic activity caused the end-Triassic mass extinction 200 million years ago. The dinosaurs survived and rose to dominance.
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here's what it could do to Earth.
From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience "the end," no matter how we define it.
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Can a non-native species be a friend instead of a foe?
Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support.
Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
Pando, which is Latin for "I spread," is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.
This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.
Using DNA from samples of extinct flowers, synthetic biologists managed to approximate long-lost floral scents.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]
We’re Earth’s first intelligent, technologically advanced civilization. But maybe not the last. For most of our planet’s history, life in some form has existed on our world. Planet Earth formed some […]
The cosmic story of us wasn’t inevitable, but the culmination of many chance events. By the time our planet was four billion years old, the rise of large plants and animals […]
The history of life on Earth took many meandering turns before it gave rise to us. When Earth first formed, all the raw ingredients for life — atoms, molecules, a potentially habitable planet […]
No other object this large has come so close to Earth in millions of years. In the 5th millennium, we might suffer the consequences. “Honestly, if you’re given the choice […]