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Scientists Discovered a Surprise 6th Mass Extinction, Which Came Before the Big 5
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoFirst Mass Extinction Event Newly Discovered Liyao Xie - Getty Images Researchers have gone back in...
What is a mass extinction, and why do scientists think we’re in the middle of one?
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAt least five times, a catastrophe has killed off the vast majority of Earth’s species. As...
Scientists Say They've Found The Largest Asteroid Impact Crater Hiding In Plain Sight
Women's Health via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLargest-Ever Asteroid Impact Might be in AustraliaMichael Godek - Getty Images Researchers believe...
The largest known asteroid impact structure on Earth is buried in southeast Australia, new evidence...
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn artist's depiction of an asteroid hitting Earth. This article was originally published at The...
World’s largest-ever asteroid impact crater may be in Australia
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe world’s largest asteroid impact structure could be buried deep in southern New South Wales in...
Pacific lamprey: The jawless fish that survived 4 mass extinctions and sucks prey dry of blood and...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe sucker mouths of 10 Pacific lampreys through the glass of an aquarium,. Instead of a jaw,...
The sixth extinction is underway, study finds. But here's why all hope is not lost.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGlobal population trends among 71,000 animal species show nearly half are "sliding toward...
Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Buried Under Australia
Futurism via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe landmass of Australia could be harboring a massive, subterranean secret. In a new essay for The...
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...
The Coolest Dinosaur-Age Discoveries of 2023
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDinosaurs’ reign on Earth ended explosively (and then dustily, as we’ll mention in this story) when an asteroid slammed into Earth some 66 million years...