5 Extinctions That Wiped Much of Life off Planet Earth
The next time you’re feeling less than brave, remind yourself you’re already one of nature’s great success stories.
The next time you’re feeling less than brave, remind yourself you’re already one of nature’s great success stories.
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It's too late to discover the wonders of Costa Rica's golden toad or go to Mauritius to see the dodo.
Due to poaching, elephants populations are declining steadily—even in protected areas.
Indigenous communities in India are peacefully coexisting with tigers, helping to bolster the numbers of the endangered populations around them.
The researchers believe that dinosaur extinction was a 40-million-year process.
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A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History argues that birds are just another kind of dinosaur.
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Scanning a long-dead museum specimen revealed a pigment rarely found in ducks.
A quarry pit may hold clues pointing to a mass extinction more than 65 million years ago.
When large animals like mammoths go extinct, the world’s nutrient cycle suffers.
One major threat? Collectors and horticulturists harvest the wild plants and sell them illegally.
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New facts continue to emerge about the long-gone species from Down Under.
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