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Mississippi man finds fossilized remains of saber-toothed tiger dating back 10,000 years
USA Today· 2 days agoSaber-toothed tigers, or smilodon fatalis, are a species of large cat that weighed somewhere between...
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens extinction
CBS News· 6 days agoBoots dusty, lungs heaving, Dr. John Wiens searched the boulders of a desolate Arizona mountaintop...
Scientists Uncover Bones of Massive Extinct Snake, Comparable in Size to the 43-Foot Titanoboa
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoPaleontologists in India have unearthed fossilized bones from one of the largest snakes ever discovered. In a study, published last week in the journal Scientific Reports, ...
‘Mysterious case’ of stolen bait leads to first-in-a-century discovery in Australia
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe species was locally extinct from the Mount Gibson Sanctuary until being reintroduced last April....
Column: Make investments to protect our aina
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 4 days agoLast year, we saw firsthand the devastating consequences of not being attentive to ‘aina, when raging fires on Maui and Hawaii island caused...
Harvard and the Effort to Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson· 6 days agoHarvard Medical School professor George M. Church didn’t think that by the end of his breakfast in...
OUTDOORS: Embrace Earth Day
Montrose Daily Press· 5 days agoPeople have had a problem polluting the earth for centuries; it is only recently we have started paying attention to it. Many times, especially during...
Cloning makes three: Two more endangered ferrets are gene copies of critter frozen in 1980s
RockinghamNow.com, Eden and Reidssville· 4 days agoTwo more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an...
ACLU NM to Santa Fe Mayor: Median Bill Faces “Uphill Battle” Legally
Santa Fe Reporter· 1 day agoA proposed ordinance from Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber seeking to ban people from sitting or standing on medians less than 36 inches wide will face an uphill legal battle, according to a letter ...