A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...

The extinction of megafauna at the end of Pleistocene has been traditionally explained by environmental changes or overexploitation by human hunting (overkill). Despite difficulties in choosing ...

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society Te Apārangi Marsden Fund. Kane Fleury works for Tūhura Otago Museum which is a publicly funded trust. Manaia Pearmain-Fenton is a council member of ...

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Long before humans arrived, Australia was home to unique dinosaurs and massive megafauna found nowhere else on Earth. Its isolation shaped one of the strangest evolutionary stories in history. This ...

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Biodiversity loss is emerging as a systemic risk to the global economy and financial stability, a landmark report said on Monday, urging companies to act now or potentially ...

A genome reconstructed from a tiny piece of flesh found in the stomach of a wolf pup that died 14,400 years ago suggests that woolly rhinos were still genetically healthy even as they faced imminent ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

One of the persistent claims made across the twentieth century is that humans are causing mass extinction of species, both in rate and numbers, unseen since the end of the age of dinosaurs. I ...