extinction

Scientists just found a surprising twist in Earth’s extinction story

For years, many scientists have warned that Earth is undergoing another mass extinction, with species disappearing faster than ever before.…

5 months ago

When rainforests died, the planet caught fire: New clues from Earth’s greatest extinction

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming…

9 months ago

Asteroid That Triggered Dinosaur Extinction Was a Carbon-Rich C-Type Space Rock, Study Finds

Recent research has provided new insights into the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing a mass extinction…

2 years ago

Last chance to record archaic Greek language ‘heading for extinction’

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider…

2 years ago

World’s first successful embryo transfer in rhinos paves the way for saving the northern white rhinos from extinction

BioRescue, an international consortium of scientists and conservationists, succeeded in achieving the world's first pregnancy of a rhinoceros after an…

2 years ago

Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are actually relicts of millennial-scale extinction

In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared…

2 years ago