Tag: Extinction

In the event of extinction, scientists store the human genome in a ‘memory crystal’ that will last billions of years

Researchers have encoded the entire human genome on a '5D memory crystal' in case our…

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How El Nino and Mega-Ocean Warming Caused the Largest Mass Extinction Ever

Mega-ocean warming El Niño events were critical to the largest extinction of life on planet…

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The social isolation of Neanderthals may have accelerated their extinction

Using DNA extracted from about 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that…

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The number of fish species at risk of extinction is five times higher than previous estimates, according to a new forecast

Researchers predict that 12.7% of marine bony fish species are threatened with extinction, a fivefold…

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Why one of baseball’s unique skills, switch-hitting, is in danger of extinction

CLEVELAND – Francisco Lindor is a natural right-handed hitter who, as a child, desperately wanted…

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Scientists use new sound technology to save animals from extinction

Scientists are using new technology to help endangered animals by listening to their sounds. The…

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First local extinction in US due to sea level rise, study suggests

The United States has lost its only home of the enormous Key Largo tree cactus,…

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The evidence is mounting: humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals

The debate has raged for decades: was it humans or climate change that led to…

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The last remaining woolly mammoths were inbred, but not doomed to extinction

The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of…

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Ocean oxygen loss caused a Jurassic mass extinction: could it happen again?

Researchers have discovered a clue in Italian limestone that helps explain a mass extinction of…

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