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What Might the Next Mass Extinction Look Like?
Earth has experienced several mass extinctions caused by events like asteroid impacts, volcanic activity, and climate change, with…
How the age of mammals could end
When Pangea Ultima forms, conditions on Earth will be too inhospitable for most mammals to survive. Maurus Spescha/Shutterstock…
Life Almost Lost All Its Oxygen—And We May Be In For a Repeat
Hundreds of millions of years ago, a string of seemingly minor events coalesced into a major shift that…
Scorpions Are Older Than Trees. Here’s How They’ve Survived For So Long.
Only so many animals can claim to be older than even trees, and scorpions seem to be among…
How Reptiles Dominated the Jurassic Seas
Had you been swimming out in the open seas during the Jurassic period, you might spot something that…
How Did Plants Survive the Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?
Around 60% of all plant species on Earth died with the nonavian dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when…
Astronomers have detected another ‘planet killer’ asteroid. Could we miss one coming our way?
Artist’s impression of the asteroid discovered toward the Sun. DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine Steven Tingay, Curtin University If you…
When is a species really extinct?
Dodos have been extinct for centuries, but it’s not a simple matter to definitively designate a species as…
Can we resurrect the thylacine? Maybe, but it won’t help the global extinction crisis
NFSA Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University Last week, researchers at the University of Melbourne announced that thylacines…
Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind
Mark Howden, Australian National University; Joy Pereira, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia), and Roberto Sánchez, Colegio…