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What It’ll Take to Create 21st-Century Mammoths, Dodos, and Thylacines
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Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the ‘de-extinction’ company announced plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, ...
Scientists Attempt to Pull a Jurassic Park on Extinct Animal
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Australia’s thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian tiger, was deemed extinct in 1986, 50 years after the last known living one ...
New ‘Chicken from Hell’ Discovered
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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Were dinosaurs already on their ...
The True Culprits Behind the Fall of Earth’s Largest Beasts
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Prehistoric people are attacking an elephant. New research shows that humans and not the climate caused a sharp decline in almost all ...
Quarter of world’s freshwater fish species at risk of extinction, researchers warn
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Thousands of species of freshwater fish are at risk of extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a Monday ...
Ancient Extinction Mirrors Today’s Ocean Crisis: Deoxygenation’s Role Unveiled
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A study in Nature Geosciences reveals that oceanic anoxia significantly contributed to marine extinctions during the Triassic–Jurassic period, with current levels of ...
Volcanoes or Asteroid? AI Ends Debate Over Dinosaur Extinction Event
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Dartmouth scientists used an innovative computer model to suggest that volcanic activity, rather than an asteroid impact, was the primary cause of ...
De-extinction of the wooly mammoth by 2028? Colossal Biosciences plans to combine DNA from ancient species with living Asian elephants to birth a calf that could live on tribal land
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Colossal’s scientists are working to recreate the woolly mammoth genome If successful, they would use Asian elephants as surrogate mothers The company ...
One-fifth of Europe’s Red List species face risk of extinction, new analysis finds
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