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Scientists say we're witnessing the planet's sixth mass extinction - and 'biological annihilation' is the latest sign

"The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so …

Kevin Loria   


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Billion-dollar startup plans to bring the dodo back from the dead, and claims it can also revive the woolly mammoth

Colossal Biosciences aims to use gene editing to recreate extinct animals, which it says is importa…

Marianne Guenot   


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Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to the scientists trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth

The woolly mammoth went extinct 10,000 years ago, and in reality, the scientists wouldn't actually …

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Australia's government listed 113 native animal species that need 'emergency intervention' in order to survive after its devastating bushfires

The government listing said: "The fires have covered an unusually large area and, in many places, t…

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So many animals will go extinct in the next 50 years that it will take Earth at least 3 million years to recover, a study has found

Their estimates are based on an optimistic assumption that people will eventually stop ruining habi…

Peter Kotecki   


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Researchers are debating whether to privatize endangered species

The underlying philosophy behind these policies is the concept of tragedy of the commons. The logic…

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A tiny dinosaur relative named the "Antarctic King" has been discovered at the South Pole

He's referring to what's known as the end-Permian mass extinction event, or the "Great Dying," whic…

Aylin Woodward   


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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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Scientists thought this tiny, blind mole was extinct for over 85 years, but they were wrong

De Winton's golden mole was thought to be extinct for over 80 years. A new study used DNA analysis …

Maiya Focht   


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Shark tooth enamel suggests prehistoric great whites may have competed with giant megalodons for food

Ancient megalodon sharks were four times the size of great whites, but they went extinct, while the…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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The Tasmanian tiger is thought to have gone extinct in 1936, but mysterious sightings suggest the creature might still be out there

Last month, Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment released a do…

Aylin Woodward   


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The giant ancestors of today's sloths stood 10 feet tall and ate meat, a new study found

By studying hair from giant prehistoric sloths called mylodons, experts have discovered the animals…

Aylin Woodward   


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Sharks once nearly disappeared in an abrupt extinction event 'twice as extreme' as the one that killed the dinosaurs

By studying ancient shark scales collected 3 miles under the Pacific waves, experts found that the …

Aylin Woodward   


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Video Of A Man Hugging A Wild Lion Will Bring You To Tears

A large study published in the journal Science this week found that three-quarters of the world's t…

Dina Spector   


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People Are Outraged On Facebook Thinking Steven Spielberg Actually Killed A Dinosaur

There was Texas cheerleader Kendall Jones who had her hunting photos taken down by Facebook, 17-yea…

Frank Pallotta   


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One of the greatest extinction mysteries in history is still unsolved

Shapiro writes that it's hard to pin the mammoth's end on warmth alone. While mammoths were the mos…

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The dinosaurs may have already been going extinct before the cataclysmic space rock hit Earth, new findings suggest

Did dinosaurs go extinct after a space rock hit Earth 66 million years ago, or were they already de…

Aylin Woodward