Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
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'Sobering statistic:' paper claims one-fifth of pollinators in North America at extinction risk
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Hundreds of livestock breeds have gone extinct – but some Australian farmers are keeping endangered breeds alive
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Scientists have bred "Woolly Mice" on their journey to bring back the mammoth
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Why wasn't there a second age of reptiles?
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Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
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Botanists identify thirty-three global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants
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When Rob Barrett surveyed one of Norway's largest seabird colonies in the '70s there were too many birds to count – stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline
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Why have salmon deserted Norway's rivers? Salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish's future.
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How beavers can fully revitalise a farm
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For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?
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Twenty-one species removed from endangered list due to extinction, US wildlife officials say
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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
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Why (some) fireflies are going extinct
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Can alligators survive this apex predator? | Kenny Coogan
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Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests
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Chasing the ivory-billed woodpecker
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Manmade horrors beyond our comprehension
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Saving the Red Handfish from extinction
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The catastrophe no one talks about
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What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
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The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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Norway's breeding programme sees arctic foxes return in high numbers – foxes still listed as under threat of becoming extinct in Scandinavia
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Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years
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The mystery of Denmark's vanishing wolf pack – are hunters to blame?
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Galápagos tortoise found alive is from species thought extinct
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The last two northern white rhinos on earth
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Restoring farmland could drastically slow extinctions, fight climate change
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Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
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The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think
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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
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When the giant Galapagos tortoise faced extinction, Diego answered the call
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Study shows erosion of ozone layer responsible for mass extinction event
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Eleven percent rise in threatened Swedish species over the past five years, according to the latest report from SLU, the Swedish Species Information Centre
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New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs
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Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
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The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct
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The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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How climate change threatens Iceland's iconic puffins – and the community that has gone from hunting and eating them, to rescuing them
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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Impacts: Climate change awareness project
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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Survival by degrees: 389 bird species on the brink
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Scientists discover new evidence of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs
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The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch
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Once nearly dead as the dodo, California condor comeback reaches 1,000 chicks
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Scientists successfully transfer first test tube rhino embryo
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