A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...
Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...
No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...
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66 million years ago, squid survived the dinosaur-killing extinction in deep-sea oxygen refuges — then rapidly evolved
Learn how a new genomic study reveals that squid and cuttlefish survived a mass extinction in deep-sea refuges before rapidly ...
During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...
Hawksbill turtles are on the critically endangered list, but one Australian wildlife refuge is trying to help ...
LOS ANGELES -- The vaquita porpoise lives only in the Northern Gulf of California. They are shy animals that only hang out in small groups and because of that not many people have seen them. Vaquita ...
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