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