Accurate forecasting has long been an art and a science, but when the stakes are high, it is smart to make it into a tournament. William Culbert Researchers recently systematically surveyed two ...
In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...
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Study suggests Earth’s first mass extinction may have been overlooked
A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...
A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author Robert Cowie of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and ...
A recent study led by geosciences professor Gerta Keller challenges the most commonly-held belief for the mass-extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago. The ...
Debates over responsibility for past species loss generate heat but little light. Moving forward requires context, evidence ...
Extinction and radiation : how the fall of dinosaurs led to the rise of mammals / J. David Archibald
The late Cretaceous nonavian dinosaur record -- In the shadow of nonavian dinosaurs -- In search of our most ancient eutherian ancestors -- Patterns of extinction at the K/T boundary -- Causes of ...
A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, resurrected the mutated genes of the last herd of woolly mammoths and found that their small population had developed ...
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