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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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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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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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
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Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests
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Saving the Red Handfish from extinction
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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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The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
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Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years
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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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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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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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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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Scientists successfully transfer first test tube rhino embryo
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When giant scorpions swarmed the seas
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Some cancers become contagious
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World's biggest bee found alive
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The Australian government has formally recognised the extinction of a tiny island rodent, the Bramble Cay melomys - the first known demise of a mammal because of human-induced climate change.
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species The news report from...
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction
The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species
The news report from 2016: First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change
The scientific report from 2016: Confirmation of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola on Bramble Cay, Torres Strait (PDF)
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How a change in climate wiped out the ‘Siberian unicorn’
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Test tube trees
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Meet the scientists bringing extinct species back from the dead
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Dinosaur wars: Scientists behaving badly
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The nastiest feud in science - What caused the dinosaur extinction?
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When will the Earth try to kill us again: Most mass extinctions began with vast convulsions of Earth’s interior—can we detect that?
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Dinosaur killing asteroid also killed most bird species due to global deforestation
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