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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has updated the new red list of endangered species, 9,000 animals from the forest to the sea have been added to…
The number of sturgeon, living animals and the dinosaurs that once dominated the river system in the United States, has risen again after a long period of over-hunting a…
600 species of plants have become extinct in the last 250 years, more than double the number of extinct species of mammals, amphibians and birds combined, according to r…
What is extinction function? Why do koala bears fall into that situation?
Blue electric 1-inch individuals were stuck in limestone caves that were sunk in the desert of Nevadan since the Ice Age. In 2013, their number was only 35.
Dinosaurs should have lived until today with humans and meteorite disasters that did not make them extinct, a biologist said.
Hibiscadelphus woodii is a flower that has been listed on extinction by scientists. However, with drone equipment, this flower is suddenly discovered still exists in nat…
For a long time, scientists have argued about what has forced Siberian unicorns to extinction, human or climate.
In the history of Earth there have been many mass extinctions. And according to a recent study, at least two of them are caused by global warming.
It happened about 250 million years ago, even before the eruption of the dinosaurs and volcanoes that destroyed the Earth's ozone layer, almost completely eradicated lif…
The controversial hypothesis attracts a lot of conflicting opinions about the period when people almost died.
Aliens' civilizations may not achieve the necessary scientific progress, such as space movement or interstellar communication to be discovered by us.
And although that giant meteorite has caused a major extinction, the seabed life where it collided has recovered in less than 10 years.
Recently scientists from the University of Reading (UK) have rejected the hypothesis if no meteorite falls on Earth, dinosaurs will continue to proliferate.
During the five epochs that lasted 500 million years, scientists estimated that there were about 50-90% of all species that had to suffer from being wiped out entirely o…