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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a species of plants or animals. The death of the last individual of the species is generally regarded as the moment of extinction. More than one in four species on Earth currently faces extinction.
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SEP 28, 2022Plants & Animals
In its heyday, silphion, a gold flowering plant, was about as valuable as gold. This heyday, of course, was in antiquity ...Written By: Ryan VingumSEP 26, 2022Earth & The Environment
Professor Kate Trinajstic examines ancient fossils at the Western Australian Museum that were collected from the Gogo Fo ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 15, 2022Infographics
Modern dogs, which have descended from a now-extinct lineage of wolves, are often called “man’s best friend& ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 06, 2022Chemistry & Physics
In a 2021 study published in PNAS, an international team of researchers suggest that cave paintings found in Cueva de Ar ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 02, 2022Plants & Animals
Bumblebees have been all the buzz lately. Headlines abound about how bumblebee populations continue to decline across th ...Written By: Ryan VingumAUG 24, 2022Plants & Animals
Extinction rates have accelerated around the globe. Changes in climate and habitat loss, in particular, are driving more ...Written By: Ryan VingumAUG 12, 2022Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, an international team of researchers discuss how the increasing ho ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 05, 2022Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Biogeosciences, Professor Emeritus Kunio Kaiho of Tohoku University conducted a quantitat ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 28, 2022Earth & The Environment
Gold miners working in the freezing Klondike gold mines in Canada's Yukon territory have made a discovery while excavati ...Written By: Timothy JamesJUL 18, 2022Plants & Animals
As one of the earliest domesticated animals, dogs evolved from wolves into what we now know as extremely diverse domesti ...Written By: Mandy WoodsJUL 14, 2022Chemistry & Physics
Scientists have discovered evidence of fire dating back at least 800,000 years. Fire has been essential to human evoluti ...Written By: Hannah DanielJUL 14, 2022Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and China reveal in a recent study published in Science Advances how ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 07, 2022Earth & The Environment
56 million years ago, the Earth was a much different place as a cataclysmic event caused global temperatures to rise and ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 30, 2022Chemistry & Physics
Rising temperatures in Antarctica could endanger the only insect native to the frozen continent. Researchers at the Univ ...Written By: Hannah DanielAPR 14, 2022Earth & The Environment
In 2020, when I was still working at a small natural history museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota, I started to hear whis ...Written By: Timothy JamesNOV 29, 2021Plants & Animals
Extinction events have been common in Earth’s history. Over the last 450 million years, for example, there have be ...Written By: Ryan VingumNOV 22, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Evolution has allowed organisms to adapt to their environments, sometimes in very specific ways, through changes in thei ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 22, 2021Plants & Animals
African lungfish are incredible animals that survive in freshwater or on land. Research on lungfish has taught us more a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2021Plants & Animals
A new fossil attributed to the species Homo naledi has been discovered.Written By: Brittany Kenyon-FlattNOV 08, 2021Cancer
Elephants possess two qualities that might make one expect they are at high risk of developing cancer; they are large an ...Written By: Katie KokolusOCT 18, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
The climate is hot and muggy with the world's oceans as hot as a sauna. Also, it just started raining and it will not st ...Written By: Timothy JamesOCT 04, 2021Plants & Animals
According to a recent announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, also called the & ...Written By: Ryan VingumOCT 02, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 14, 2021Space & Astronomy
NASA can detect asteroids, so there's been plenty of speculation about what might happen if we discover an asteroid ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 28, 2022
Plants & Animals
In its heyday, silphion, a gold flowering plant, was about as valuable as gold. This heyday, of course, was in antiquity
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
SEP 26, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Professor Kate Trinajstic examines ancient fossils at the Western Australian Museum that were collected from the Gogo Fo
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 15, 2022
Infographics
Modern dogs, which have descended from a now-extinct lineage of wolves, are often called “man’s best friend&
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 06, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
In a 2021 study published in PNAS, an international team of researchers suggest that cave paintings found in Cueva de Ar
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 02, 2022
Plants & Animals
Bumblebees have been all the buzz lately. Headlines abound about how bumblebee populations continue to decline across th
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
AUG 24, 2022
Plants & Animals
Extinction rates have accelerated around the globe. Changes in climate and habitat loss, in particular, are driving more
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
AUG 12, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, an international team of researchers discuss how the increasing ho
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 05, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Biogeosciences, Professor Emeritus Kunio Kaiho of Tohoku University conducted a quantitat
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 28, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Gold miners working in the freezing Klondike gold mines in Canada's Yukon territory have made a discovery while excavati
...
Written By:
Timothy James
JUL 18, 2022
Plants & Animals
As one of the earliest domesticated animals, dogs evolved from wolves into what we now know as extremely diverse domesti
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
JUL 14, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Scientists have discovered evidence of fire dating back at least 800,000 years. Fire has been essential to human evoluti
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
JUL 14, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and China reveal in a recent study published in Science Advances how
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 07, 2022
Earth & The Environment
56 million years ago, the Earth was a much different place as a cataclysmic event caused global temperatures to rise and
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 30, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Rising temperatures in Antarctica could endanger the only insect native to the frozen continent. Researchers at the Univ
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
APR 14, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In 2020, when I was still working at a small natural history museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota, I started to hear whis
...
Written By:
Timothy James
NOV 29, 2021
Plants & Animals
Extinction events have been common in Earth’s history. Over the last 450 million years, for example, there have be
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
NOV 22, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Evolution has allowed organisms to adapt to their environments, sometimes in very specific ways, through changes in thei
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2021
Plants & Animals
African lungfish are incredible animals that survive in freshwater or on land. Research on lungfish has taught us more a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
A new fossil attributed to the species Homo naledi has been discovered.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
NOV 08, 2021
Cancer
Elephants possess two qualities that might make one expect they are at high risk of developing cancer; they are large an
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
OCT 18, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
The climate is hot and muggy with the world's oceans as hot as a sauna. Also, it just started raining and it will not st
...
Written By:
Timothy James
OCT 04, 2021
Plants & Animals
According to a recent announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, also called the &
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
OCT 02, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 14, 2021
Space & Astronomy
NASA can detect asteroids, so there's been plenty of speculation about what might happen if we discover an asteroid
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch