Life tried, but it did not work. As the Late Devonian period approached, more and more living things died out, culminating in one of the greatest events of mass extinction our planet has ever witnessed, some 359 million years ago. The culprit responsible for so many deaths may not have …
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Climate change is starving polar bears endangered, according to research published Monday that predicts that major carnivores could disappear in the course of human life. In some regions they are already caught in a vicious. downward spiral, with shrinking sea ice shortening the time bears have to hunt seals, scientists …
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Koalas in the Australian state of New South Wales are on the verge of becoming extinct in the wild in the next 30 years, according to a report released Tuesday. Forest fires in the region from 2019 to this year have resulted in devastating losses for koalas, according to the …
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On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
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