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Science & Tech News tagged with extinction

When Genes Tell Species to Go Extinct
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, study, research, ice age, extinction, discovery )

Simone
- 108 days ago - scienceblog.com
The ice age may have caused the extinction of dinosaurs and the woolly mammoths may have disappeared because of declining sources of food, but extinction doesn't always have to be due to environmental triggers, as scientists at the University of
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Mammoths Driven To Extinction By Humans? Is That Hard To Believe?
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, mammoth, extinction, humans, science, paleontology, research, investigation, humans, interesting, discovery, environment, archaeology, study, habitat, nature, globalwarming, climatechange )

Tom
- 184 days ago - gliving.com
If you think animal extinction due to climate change is a new phenomenon, think again. Take for example the woolly mammoth. It's long been accepted that this ancient creature was driven into smaller and smaller habitats by the earth's rising temperatures.
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Backyard Scientists Use Web to Catalog Species, Aid Research
Science & Tech  (tags: Science, Toads, endangered, conservation, extinction, wildlife, research )

Dee
- 205 days ago - cnn.com
CNN)-- As a hobby, Suzie Jirachareonkul, a teacher and mother of two, spends many of her nights searching for endangered toads on the country roads near her home outside Cape Town, South Africa.
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Did Great Salt Lakes Trigger The End-Permian Mass Extinction?
Science & Tech  (tags: permian mass extinction, geology, biology, science, scientists, research, history, animals, wildlife, environment, salt-lakes, extinction, poisonous gases, ancient, climate, concept, discovery, interesting, investigation, news, study, world )

SirRobert
- 239 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Researchers point to lake-borne poisonous gases as the prime murder weapon leading to 'greatest apocalypse'; the end-permian mass extinction of 250 million years ago.
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Why Certain Fishes Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago
Science & Tech  (tags: fishes, extinction, prehistoric )

Ingrid
- 243 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study.
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Satellites to Protect Greenland Seal Pups in White Sea
Science & Tech  (tags: Online satellite monitoring, White sea, observe, sea traffic and navigation, research, science, scientists, space, study, interesting, extinction, endangered, environment, seals, baby seals, russia )

In A Mirr
- 257 days ago - russia-ic.com
Two days ago a joint project of Russian "ScanEx" company and IFAW (International Foundation for Animal Welfare) on protecting White sea population of Greenland seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) was launched.
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Current Mass Extinction Spurs Major Study Of Which Plants To Save
Science & Tech  (tags: sixth mass extinction, holocene extinction, ucsb, extinction, plants, animals, biodiversity crisis, study, science, scientists, earth, research, tech, climate change, global warming, history, geology, endangered species, ecosystems, biology, humans, world )

SirRobert
- 292 days ago - ia.ucsb.edu
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB): The Earth is currently in the midst of a sixth mass extinction of plants and animals, with an estimated nearly 50 percent of all species disappearing, scientists say.
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Comet Strikes Increase As We Pass Through The Galactic Plane
Science & Tech  (tags: comets, universe, astronomy, history, geology, 2012, galactic plane, galactic alignment, dinosaurs, humans, world, science, research, tech, technology, computers, milky way galaxy, solar system, earth, extinction, black hole, climate change )

SirRobert
- 308 days ago - universetoday.com
As we pass across the galactic plane, this cyclic time-period seems to match the most dangerous prehistoric periods of devastating impacts upon the Earth.
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Study: Diamonds Link Comet To Mammal Extinction
Science & Tech  (tags: comet, Earth, diamonds, extinction, mammals, animals, wildlife, North America, discovery, concept, ancient, environment, history, interesting, news, research, science, scientists, space, study, tech, technology, world, geology )

SirRobert
- 326 days ago - cnn.com
Tiny diamonds discovered in the soil of North America are "strong evidence" of a comet strike 13,000 years ago, which led to a mammal extinction level event.
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Beaked Whales , A Myserious Deep Water Species
Science & Tech  (tags: whales, wildlife, habitat, environment, extinction, research, science )

Raven
- 346 days ago - physorg.com
Recent studies have shown that the beaks of Beaked Whales which are thought to be competition between males, actually evolved thorugh Sexual Selection. Very little is known about these mysterious beings of the deep
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How Can We Reduce the Risk of Human Extinction?
Science & Tech  (tags: world, science, space, environment, scientists, humans, extinction, essay )

SirRobert
- 434 days ago - thebulletin.org
Scientists discuss real threats to the human-race, and ways to reduce human extinction. For the first time in history, we have some knowledge and capability to prevent certain disaster scenarios.
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Dinosaurs - More Lucky Than Most
Science & Tech  (tags: dinosaurs, crurotarsans, evolution, adaptability, extinction )

RC
- 438 days ago - nytimes.com
A new scientific study claims before dinosaurs got unlucky and were wiped out, they thrived because they were lucky, not because they were genetically better or more adaptable than other species.
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We Are Running Out Out Time! So, Race To Save Our Chimpanzees
Science & Tech  (tags: endangered, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, protection, wildlife, suffering, killing, killed, wildlife, extinction, rescued, conservation, animalwelfare, abuse, AnimalCruelty, animaladvocates, cruelty )

DobieMax
- 506 days ago - chimpeden.com
I remember when Louis Leaky gave Jane Goodall an opportunity for her research. Now, she is giving other people opportunities through the Jane Goodall Institute. Chimpanzees are being rescue to go live at Chimp Eden. Love, DobieMax
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When Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Dating Refined
Science & Tech  (tags: dinosaurs, extinction, research, geology )

Ingrid
- 576 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to refinements to a common technique for dating rocks and fossils.
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Phew! Humans May Have Faced Extinction
Science & Tech  (tags: study, extinction, human, human evolution )


- 579 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. Numbers dwindled down to 2,000 due to drought.
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