New research suggests evolution might favor 'survival of the laziest'
If you've got an unemployed, 30-year-old adult child still living in the basement, fear not.
Evolution
Aug 21, 2018
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News tagged with extinct
By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch sixth mass extermination of species, mathematics predicts (Update)
In the past 540 million years, the Earth has endured five mass extinction events, each involving processes that upended the normal cycling of carbon through the atmosphere and oceans. These globally fatal perturbations in ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2017
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Artificial intelligence finds surprising patterns in Earth's biological mass extinctions
Charles Darwin's landmark opus "On the Origin of the Species" ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution: "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into ...
Evolution
Dec 10, 2020
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Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
Humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current conservation efforts are not improved, ...
Evolution
Oct 15, 2018
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Worried about Earth's future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp
Anyone with even a passing interest in the global environment knows all is not well. But just how bad is the situation? Our new paper shows the outlook for life on Earth is more dire than is generally understood.
Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2021
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RNA recovered from extinct animal in world first
Scientists have for the first time recovered RNA from an extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger, raising hope for the resurrection of animals once thought lost forever, Stockholm University researchers told AFP.
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 26, 2023
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Geochemical study confirms cause of end-Permian mass extinction event
The most severe mass extinction event in the past 540 million years eliminated more than 90 percent of Earth's marine species and 75 percent of terrestrial species. Although scientists had previously hypothesized that the ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2021
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Researcher links mass extinctions to 'Planet X'
Periodic mass extinctions on Earth, as indicated in the global fossil record, could be linked to a suspected ninth planet, according to research published by a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Department of Mathematical ...
Astronomy
Mar 30, 2016
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The origin and legacy of the Etruscans
The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a now-extinct, non-Indo-European language, the Etruscans stood ...
Archaeology
Sep 24, 2021
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Sleeping giant could end deep ocean life
A previously overlooked factor—the position of continents—helps fill Earth's oceans with life-supporting oxygen. Continental movement could ultimately have the opposite effect, killing most deep ocean creatures.
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2022
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