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Over 80% of prehistoric megaherbivores went extinct due to human activity and not climate change: Study
Recent studies have spotlighted the extinction or rapid decline of large mammals over the past 50,0…
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Did infection from human viruses contribute to the demise of Neanderthals 40,000 years ago?
Researchers sifted through DNA extracted from Neanderthal remains in Chagyrskaya Cave, Russia, to l…
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'Intellectually inferior' humans caused Neanderthals to go extinct, a new book claims
Neanderthals' extinction is one of the biggest mysteries about the species. In "The Naked Neanderth…
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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Startup extinction season is going to kick into high gear — and there's likely going to be a bloodbath soon for some of the 50,000 VC-backed startups
There are more than 50,000 US VC-backed startups, and many will probably be looking for capital in …
Vishal Persaud
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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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Why a boomer left coastal Florida for a rural Arkansas town of 900 residents: 'I didn't think we'd make it' to retirement in Florida
Milan Novak, 67, moved from Florida's Atlantic Coast to a city in rural Arkansas with 900 residents…
Noah Sheidlower
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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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The marketing failure that's going to kill us all
Marketing can help Americans see climate change for what it really is: A crisis that requires our i…
Jake Safane
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Why the world's favorite banana may go extinct, and how scientists are trying to save it
Cavendish bananas make up 99% of all banana exports. But the variety is vulnerable to a fungus that…
Abby Narishkin,Steve Cameron,Victoria Barranco,Kuwilileni Hauwanga
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Sam Bankman-Fried was just convicted. Where does crypto go from here?
Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction closes a dark chapter for the crypto industry. But the future of the…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Double-decker planes are going extinct as Airbus and Boeing discontinue their largest models. Here's why airlines are abandoning 4-engine jets.
The Boeing 747 has survived over 50 years but its days are numbered as smaller planes become the fa…
Thomas Pallini
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A company with a controversial strategy to bring animals back from extinction has hired influencers including a 'Bachelor' contestant — to promote it online
Influencers are posting about the firm's Tasmanian tiger 'de-extinction' plan using the hashtag #co…
Mara Leighton
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McDonald's M&M McFlurry might soon go extinct - here's why
In an email to Tech Insider, a Mars rep tells us whatever decision they do make, it will be part of…
Rafi Letzter
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Why R. Kelly got sentenced to 10 more years of prison time than Ghislaine Maxwell
The R&B singer was sentenced to 30 years for his sex-trafficking enterprise, while Maxwell got 20 y…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz,Jacob Shamsian
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Why the world needs to bring back woolly mammoths
If Church's lab gets to the point where they actually want to implant some new mammoth-elephant emb…
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Award winning chef Andrew Zimmern says restaurants are facing a near-extinction event and pinpoints the real problems in America's supply chain
"If we don't backstop restaurants, I believe we are looking at a near-extinction event for them," a…
Sara Silverstein
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A new study reveals how the last woolly mammoths died out 4,000 years ago. That's after the Egyptians had built the pyramids.
A previous study found that the mammoth inhabitants on the other similarly isolated island of St. P…
Aylin Woodward
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North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds in the last 50 years - another sign that we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
"The global biodiversity crisis has come to America's backyard here. When people picture losses, th…
Aylin Woodward
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs triggered devastating underwater eruptions - which changes how we understand their extinction
There were at least three nearly simultaneous events involved in the global catastrophe that ended …