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A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its last meal
Locals found this first-of-a-kind Pleistocene wolf in Siberia. It's so mummified that scientists ho…
Jenny McGrath,Morgan McFall-J…
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Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America
Giant mammals like dire wolves and saber-tooth cats were once common in North America. But these me…
Jenny McGrath
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Cavendish bananas face extinction and not all experts agree on how to save it
Are bananas going extinct? The Gros Michel did, and the Cavendish variety is battling disease. Here…
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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A rogue star could save Earth from extinction in a billion years by knocking it out past Pluto
In around a billion years, the sun will become hot enough to boil all the oceans on Earth. A rogue …
Marianne Guenot
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10 iconic animals that were at risk of extinction but rebounded after the Endangered Species Act passed 50 years ago
The bill, signed by Republican President Richard Nixon in 1973, declared that the fish, wildlife, a…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Humans and Neanderthals only had sex for a brief period, but it still fundamentally changed our DNA
Scientists studied ancient humans and learned humans and Neanderthals started interbreeding 47,000 …
Jenny McGrath
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'Extinct' holly tree in Brazil rediscovered living in big city, say scientists
The expedition in Brazil spotted the Pernambuco holly when they recognized its distinctive tiny whi…
Rebecca Rommen
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The first life forms on Earth might have come from Saudi Arabia, scientists find new proof
Scientists have unearthed living stromatolites — ancient geological structures made from algae — on…
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An orca species that helped humans hunt whales for thousands of years may now be extinct, new research reveals
For thousands of years, Thaua hunters in eastern Australia hunted whales with the help of orcas.
Katie Hawkinson
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Researchers rediscovered a spiky, beaked echidna named after Sir David Attenborough that hasn't been seen for 60 years and was thought to be extinct
The adorable long-beaked echidna is a rare type of egg-laying mammal that had eluded scientists for…
Sonam Sheth,Maiya Focht
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The early ancestors of humans were reduced to 1,300 individuals and came close to extinction, scientists say
The evolutionary bottleneck 900,000 years ago might have been caused by an extreme climate event, r…
Alia Shoaib
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Human-caused fires may have contributed to the extinction of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and other animals 13,000 years ago
Researchers say fires, possibly set by humans, led to the disappearance of dire wolves, sabertooth …
Jenny McGrath
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Why did some birds survive when dinosaurs went extinct? Molting feathers could hold a clue
Feathers preserved in amber could suggest some ancient birds molted differently than modern birds, …
Jenny McGrath
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27,000-year-old pendants crafted from the skin of extinct giant sloths could help rewrite the human history of the Americas
Researchers found what appeared to be pendants in Brazil, dating from around 25,000 to 27,000 years…
Alia Shoaib
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$1.5 billion startup says it's getting close to bringing the woolly mammoth back from the dead with elephant cells
Colossal Biosciences, valued at $1.5 billion, said it can create a mammoth-like, gene-edited creatu…
Marianne Guenot
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An extinct species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans. The findings challenge our understanding of human evolution, researchers say.
Homo naledi had much smaller brains than modern-day humans. Burials and carvings were previously th…
Alia Shoaib
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Mummified animals Napoleon's scientists brought back from Egypt sparked a pre-Darwinian debate about evolution
Mummified birds brought back from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt led to a debate about transformism, …
Jenny McGrath
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Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history
Homo sapien bones in a German cave prove early humans occupied Europe 47,500 years ago alongside Ne…
Ellyn Lapointe
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A 13-year-old found a 5-million-year-old fossil, and now there's a new species of walrus named in his honor
A 13-year-old saw a skull protruding from a boulder. The fossil belonged to an ancient toothless wa…
Jenny McGrath
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YouTube helped solve an evolutionary mystery that's puzzled biologists for decades
Euglenoids are microscopic organisms with both animal and plant traits. A YouTube video gave resear…