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The most famous extinction event in the planet's history is happening again — in Santa Cruz
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoScientists are using a UC Santa Cruz greenhouse to re-create the mass extinction that wiped out the...
Fossil eggs unearthed in China suggest dinosaurs were already in decline before asteroid impact
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDinosaurs were already in decline before the large asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago...
Sharks Have Existed Longer Than the North Star?
Snopes via Yahoo News· 7 months agoPixabay/Public Domain As one of the marine ecosystem's top predators, the animals we know today as sharks evolved from similar creatures that roamed the...
Mystery of why world's largest ape went extinct finally solved, scientists say
CBS News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing...
The Texas company reviving the extinct woolly mammoth adds the dodo to its to-do list
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 6 months agoRemember the organization that in 2021 announced it was going to bring the woolly mammoth back from...
If we can't fix this "frightening" problem, then we have "no hope" of addressing the climate crisis
Salon via Yahoo News· 8 months agoClimate protest sign Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images One of the world's most prominent...
Lethal inaction: The era of 'eco-anxiety' is here. What is it and how does it apply in Wisconsin?
Green Bay Press-Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRising temperatures, wetter seasons, extreme precipitation, topsoil erosion, heat waves, droughts,...
Scientists say they can bring extinct species back. But should they?
Yahoo News 360· 2 years agoAnimals like the woolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger may be revived thanks to advances in gene...
Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 4 months agoResearchers extracted ancient human bone fragments from the Ilsenhöhle cave in Ranis, Germany.Tim...
How the Largest Primate Ever Went Extinct
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe largest primate in our family tree went extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, and its existence has been known to humankind for less than a...