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Mega El Niños may have played a part in the Permian mass extinction

Extreme weather events lasting more than a decade could have killed off forests 250 million years ago, contributing to Earth's worst ever mass extinction

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Last Wrangel Mammoth

Life

The last woolly mammoths on Earth died from bad luck, not inbreeding

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How dodo de-extinction is helping rescue the extraordinary pink pigeon

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How dodo de-extinction is helping rescue the extraordinary pink pigeon

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Life

Can genetically modifying a rare marsupial save it from extinction?

Analysis

The best new science fiction books of April 2024

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The best new science fiction books of April 2024

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Life

Is the woolly mammoth really on the brink of being resurrected?

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F0MN2D Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis). Natural History Museum. University of Oslo. Norway.

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The Last of its Kind review: How the great auk left an enduring legacy

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Life

Why huge ape Gigantopithecus went extinct up to 295,000 years ago

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Technology

There’s a 5% chance of AI causing humans to go extinct, say scientists

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Life

Extinct Tasmanian tiger yields RNA secrets that could aid resurrection

RNA, which regulates the activity of DNA, is a crucial part of building an organism - and now researchers have extracted some from an extinct animal for the first time

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Extinctions review: A fast-paced story of going extinct on Earth

Culture

Environment

Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out Californian megafauna

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Life

Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work

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Earth review: BBC tells terrifying story of our planet’s Great Dying

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