Archeology
Ancient giant turtle as big as a rhinoceros, extinct 66 million years ago salvaged
A specimen of one of the largest turtles ever known, measuring nearly 4 metres long, has been found in Spanish waters.
Extinct
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Space science
Habitable planet appeared next to Earth, but met with disaster
Scientists have found a possible explanation for how a mass extinction occurred on a planet that NASA, ESA and many other space agencies believe must have life.
Animal world
Strange, the world's smallest pig breed thought to be extinct
Pygmy pigs - the world's smallest pig species - originate from the alluvial grasslands of the foothills of the Himalayas. This animal is quite shy by nature.
Archeology
New research says: Not a meteorite, this is the terrible thing that destroyed the dinosaurs
Something even more terrifying than the giant space rock Chicxulub may have existed on Earth, forming
Archeology
'Ghost humans' discovered leaving 'hybrid offspring' in 3 modern countries
A new study has found
Biology
Giant cockroaches thought extinct 80 years ago suddenly appear in Australia
A biology student at the University of Sydney in Australia has made a surprise discovery of a giant cockroach belonging to the wood-eating cockroach species Panesthia la…
Archeology
Shocking Research: If You Have This Beauty, You May Have DNA From Another Species
A facial feature that many people are proud of is a clear trace of interspecies marriage between Homo sapiens ancestors and an extinct human species.
Space science
Exploring the 'Black Box of the Earth' project: A device that records the process of human extinction
Despite many advances in technology, humans still seem to be worried about the impending danger of extinction.
Environment
Even if humanity becomes extinct, these three traces of humanity will still exist almost forever!
Human extinction is a fantasy, but the traces humans leave behind are not.
Biology
Parasitic flower reappears 13 years after being declared extinct
A mysterious plant with lantern-like flowers, declared extinct in 2010, has been rediscovered in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
Archeology
Scientists plan to bring back the Dodo bird, but how exactly will they do it?
The dodo, one of the largest birds on Earth, faced extinction in the late 17th century and was officially considered extinct by humans in 1662.
Oceanography
Surprising number of invertebrate species extinct in Australia
Professor John Woinarski said that despite their extremely important role in the environment, invertebrates have not received the same conservation attention as other sp…
Space science
Nemesis: The Sun's 'twin' or 'death-bringer' to Earth?
Nemesis is a hypothetical red dwarf star. The existence of this star has been proposed to explain a cyclical pattern in the rate of biological extinctions over geologic…
Archeology
280 million year old 'alien' fossil discovered in Western Australia
This 280 million year old fossil has such a strange and confusing shape that many people, upon first glance, will definitely think it is an alien fossil.
Archeology
How did the first man on Earth appear and where did he come from?
On Earth, the appearance of humans can be said to be an 'accident'. There were no humans on Earth in the first place. Humans only appeared after the mass extinction of d…