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PASSENGER PIGEONS NOW EXTINCT SURVIVED PREDATORS BY FORMING HUGE FLOCKS
The birds evolved quickly and may have adapted to large social groups, hunting and breeding together... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE COULD WIPE OUT A THIRD OF PARASITE SPECIES, STUDY FINDS
Climate change could wipe out a third of parasite species, study finds... READ MORE›
NEVADA FOSSIL FIND POINTS TO TOOTHY, LONG-JAWED SHARK PREDECESSOR
The fish, which researchers called Birgeria americana, predates Nevada's most famous fossil, the Ichthyosaur, by more than 30 million years... READ MORE›
UNDERGROUND MAGMA TRIGGERED EARTH'S WORST MASS EXTINCTION WITH GREENHOUSE GASES
But those rock dates presented science with a new puzzle why was the mass extinction event much shorter than the eruptions?... READ MORE›
LONDON ZOO WELCOMES A NEW KIND OF VISITOR
LONDON AP -- London Zoo is welcoming a new star attraction this summer robotic dinosaurs... READ MORE›
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3 PERMIAN-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION C 250 MILLION YEARS AGO.
The changes to the Earth's biology do, therefore, include a rapidly developing mass extinction event, as charted by Gerardo Caballos and his colleagues... READ MORE›
60 PERCENT OF GLOBAL WILDLIFE SPECIES WIPED OUT
The Living Planet Report 2016, released on Thursday, blamed deforestation, pollution, overfishing, and the illegal wildlife trade for pushing species populations to the edge ... READ MORE›
HUMANS CREATING SIXTH GREAT EXTINCTION OF ANIMAL SPECIES, SAY SCIENTISTS
The modern world is experiencing a sixth great extinction of animal species even when the lowest estimates of extinction rates are considered, scientists have warned... READ MORE›
DEATH PIT DINOSAURS LOST THEIR TEETH AS THEY GREW UP
Photos China's dinosaur discoveries An artist impression of the Limusaurus... READ MORE›
LAST LEGS: THE SPECIES WITH ONLY A FEW REMAINING INDIVIDUALS - GRAPHIC
The rate of animal extinction has rocketed in the past half-century. Our graphic indicates some of the species whose numbers have dwindled to a vulnerable few... READ MORE›
WORLDS MOST COMPLETE STEGOSAURUS RISES AGAIN AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Professor Paul Barrett, the museum's chief dinosaur scientist who found Sophie while at an international fossil fair in the US, said Stegosaurus fossil finds are rare... READ MORE›
COULD WE SET ASIDE HALF THE EARTH FOR NATURE?
Such areas are also increasingly seen by conservationists as key in the fight to protect nature... READ MORE›
DINOSAURS WERE ON WAY OUT BEFORE METEOR HIT
One part education, another part entertainment, the museum mixes skeletons and fossils with animatronic dinosaurs... READ MORE›
WORLD WILDLIFE POPULATION COULD FALL BY 67% FROM 1970 TO 2020
The Living Planet Report 2016, released by WWF International, said two-thirds of the world's wildlife populations could be gone by 2020... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST CROCODILE EGGS DISCOVERED FROM 152 MILLION YEARS AGO
The world's oldest crocodilian eggs laid 152 million years ago have been discovered in cliffs in Portugal... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST ASTEROID IMPACT ZONE FOUND IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, SCIENTIST SAYS
World's largest asteroid impact zone found in central Australia, scientist says... READ MORE›
WE'RE GOING THE WAY OF THE DINOSAUR
We're going the way of the dinosaur study finds Earth's species disappearing at frightening rate... READ MORE›
FOSSILIZED TRIASSIC-ERA REPTILE FOUND IN SOUTH GERMANY CALLED 'GRANDFATHER' OF ALL TURTLES
Schoch said Pappochelys, as a transitional creature between lizard-like ancestors and later turtles, provides a much clearer picture of turtle evolution... READ MORE›
DURING MASS EXTINCTION, NO SPECIES SAFE
Dominant species spread across the globe are just as vulnerable during a mass extinction event as more fragile ones confined to a single locale, according... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST ASTEROID IMPACT ZONE FOUND IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, SCIENTIST SAYS
World's largest asteroid impact zone found in central Australia, scientist says... READ MORE›
ANCIENT SECRETS OF GIANT, ARMOURED MAMMALS REVEALED IN FOSSIL DNA
The oldest armadillo fossil, from Brazil, was about 58 million years old... READ MORE›
HUMANS ARE DRIVING THE EVOLUTION OF NEW SPECIES -- AND IT'S NOT A GOOD THING
What's stunning about this human-driven evolution is not just the number of new species that have emerged but the pace at which they do so... READ MORE›
WORLD 'EMBARKING ON SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION'
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, about 41 percent of all amphibian species and 26 percent of all mammals are threatened with extinction... READ MORE›
DURING MASS EXTINCTION NO SPECIES SAFE STUDY
However, this insurance weakened towards the end of the Triassic, and was imperceptible during the mass extinction itself... READ MORE›
NEW JURASSIC SITE CONTAINS EXQUISITELY PRESERVED FOSSILS
BUENOS AIRES - Paleontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic-era fossil site four years after it was first discovered... READ MORE›
MAMMALS THRIVED LONG BEFORE THE DINOSAURS DIED
The prevailing theory that mammals only flourished after an asteroid strike wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is doubly wrong, according to a st... READ MORE›
'ONE-TWO PUNCH' DELIVERED DINO DEATH BLOW
This new temperature record provides a direct link between the volcanism and impact events and the extinction pulses -- that link being climate change, Petersen said... READ MORE›
ALTERING WILD GENE POOLS COULD STOP DISEASES, SAVE SPECIES -- BUT EVEN PROPONENTS URGE CAUTION
Another idea is to save endangered birds on the Hawaiian islands by releasing altered mosquitoes that cannot carry avian malaria... READ MORE›
SURVIVAL OF THE SMALLEST? BIGGER SEA SPECIES FACE HIGHER EXTINCTION THREAT
In past extinctions, smaller creatures were more prone to die off, or size didn't matter, said study lead author Jonathan Payne, a paleobiologist at Stanford University... READ MORE›