The asteroid that killed nearly all dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. An international team of scientists from the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Uppsala University (Sweden), Vrije Universiteit ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 23, 2022
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A new dinosaur which formed part of an array of 'unusual' creatures has been discovered in Argentina.
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 18, 2022
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"Species go extinct twice—one time when the last individual stops breathing, and a second time when the collective memory about the species disappears."—adapted from a quotation attributed to both Banksy and Irvin Yalom
Ecology
Feb 15, 2022
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A new statistical method suggests that past landscape changes can cast a shadow on future bird biodiversity, leading to avian communities facing impeding species extinctions, as well as the arrival of new colonizing species.
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2022
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It used to be the stuff of science fiction: bringing a long-dead species back from extinction by painstakingly piecing together its full DNA sequence, or genome.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 8, 2022
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While frog and salamander declines worldwide have made scientists outspoken about the need to preserve amphibian genetic diversity, two University of California, Berkeley, biologists emphasize another important reason for ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2022
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The supercontinent Pangaea, which was a combination of today's continents, broke apart at the end of the Triassic period due to large-scale volcanic activity. This volcanic activity was thought to be the most likely cause ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2022
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As the major absorbing aerosol, black carbon exerts positive radiative forcing on the atmosphere and affects the radiation balance of the earth-atmosphere system and hence aerosol-boundary interactions.
Environment
Jan 25, 2022
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Picture a mature, broad-branched tree like an oak, maple or fig. How does it reproduce so that its offspring don't grow up in its shadow, fighting for light?
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2022
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The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts warn that a Sixth Mass Extinction crisis is underway, this time entirely ...
Ecology
Jan 14, 2022
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