A Buried Oklahoma Crater Was Dated to the Wrong Era—and It Actually Lines Up With a Mass Extinction

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site ...

A tiny dinosaur feather could reveal why some birds survived extinction

A Cataclysm and Its Feathered Survivors About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. The devastation and climate upheaval it triggered are now counted among the chief drivers of ...
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Bringing Neanderthals back from extinction could soon be possible with the help of AI, but scientists are sounding the alarm

Due to the accelerating pace of AI development, Neanderthal de-extinction may become technically possible within years.

The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown ...
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Model shows extinction cascades caused by land use and climate change will wipe out more than 25% of world biodiversity

The loss of the prey species is a 'primary extinction' because it succumbed directly to a disturbance. But with nothing to eat, its predator will also go extinct (a 'co-extinction'). Or, imagine a ...
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Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo taken on July 10, 2024 shows part of an Apatosaurus' dinosaur skeleton at the Dampierre-en-Yvelines castle in France ...