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Mass extinction 183 million years ago offers dire warning for modern oceans
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Earth has endured multiple mass extinctions during its existence—the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE), for example, decimated the planet’s marine ecosystems. But ...
New Family Tree Revises Our Understanding of Bird Evolution
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By Center for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University April 3, 2024 A groundbreaking study employing full genome-scale data has revolutionized ...
De-extinction of the woolly mammoth takes a major step forwards: Scientists successfully reprogramme elephant stem cells
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Colossal Biosciences has made induced pluripotent stem cells from elephants These cells could be used to make elephant-mammoth hybrids in the future ...
Is the Y chromosome disappearing? And will that cause the extinction of men?
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The humble Y chromosome may seem simple, but it’s responsible for determining the male sex. And the bad news… It’s degenerating in ...
Scientists Uncover Startling New Insights Into the Devastating End-Triassic Mass Extinction
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Skeleton of the early dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from the Late Triassic. The protracted restructuring of Early Jurassic terrestrial ecosystems coincided with the ...
Evaluating the Classification Split Between Neanderthals and Modern Humans (Video)
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Exploring the enigmatic aspects of Neanderthal psychology reveals intriguing facets of their cognitive landscape. While understanding an extinct species’ psyche is speculative, ...
Scientists Have Determined the Cause of Lethal Climate Change That Occurred Millions of Years Ago
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Scientists have linked mass extinctions and climate change over the past 260 million years to massive volcanic eruptions and Earth’s astronomical cycles. ...
The True Culprits Behind the Fall of Earth’s Largest Beasts
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Prehistoric people are attacking an elephant. New research shows that humans and not the climate caused a sharp decline in almost all ...
Ancient Extinction Mirrors Today’s Ocean Crisis: Deoxygenation’s Role Unveiled
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A study in Nature Geosciences reveals that oceanic anoxia significantly contributed to marine extinctions during the Triassic–Jurassic period, with current levels of ...
The Dinosaur-Era Plants That “Breathed” Nitrogen To Survive Extinction
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New research on cycads, ancient plants from the Mesozoic Era, reveals that their survival into the modern era can be attributed to ...
