The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2023
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Emperor penguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of emperor penguin colonies will be ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2023
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Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall.
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 9, 2023
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An international research team from Queen Mary University of London, U.K. and the Rovereto Civic Museum Foundation, Italy has made a groundbreaking discovery regarding reptiles and their ability to match visual and auditory ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2023
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The study of a new species of coelacanth from the Middle Triassic period, with a strange morphology for these fish known as "living fossil," show the formation of several species in a short time, after a mass extinction that ...
Evolution
Jul 20, 2023
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As long as humans have existed, they've killed animals. But the necessity of some types of animal killing are now questioned by many. So can humans ever stop killing animals entirely? And if not, what's the best way forward?
Ecology
Jul 10, 2023
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An international team of ecologists, life scientists, conservationists and biologists has found that humans prey on approximately one-third of all vertebrate species in existence. In their study, reported in the journal Communications ...
From the 20-foot-long jawbones of the filter-feeding blue whale to the short, but bone-crushing, jaws of the hyena and the delicate chin bones of a human, the pair of lower jawbones characteristic of mammals have evolved ...
Evolution
Jun 27, 2023
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A genetic analysis of the hadal snailfish, the deepest-dwelling known vertebrate species, has suggested a number of key adaptations that allow it to survive more than 6,000 meters under the sea.
Evolution
Jun 20, 2023
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A team of paleontologists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, working with a colleague from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and another with the North Dakota Geological Survey, has identified a new species ...
