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A Tale of Two Nearly Extinct Giant Salamanders
Would it turn out to be a Japanese salamander, or yet another hybrid? Ms. Ishikawa was holding out hope for the “treasure” native species, but they’d...
Decolonising the hunt for dinosaurs, other fossils
23 March 2021 7:04 PMIn 2019, Mohamad Bazzi, a doctoral student at Uppsala University in Sweden, launched an expedition to Tunisia in search of fossils.
When sharks almost went the way of the dinosaurs
11 Jun 2021 6:28 PMExtinctions that obliterate wide swaths of life have reshaped Earth’s history. Typically triggered by an enormous environmental change — like an...
Avenge the dinosaurs, Musk tells NASA
25 Nov 2021 3:30 PMTech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday said that NASA's asteroid defence mission will avenge the wipe out of dinosaurs from the face of Earth.
Witness to world’s sixth mass extinction
12 Jan 2022 8:38 PMHumans are witnessing the start of the first mass extinction in 65 mn years. What does biodiversity loss mean for us and the environment?
Dinosaurs started out hot-blooded, then some turned cold
31 May 2022 2:50 AMResearchers in the past had suggested that if any dinosaurs had lower metabolisms, it would have been the giant, lumbering herbivores.
The ankylosaur’s tail-club wasn’t only swinging at T Rex
14 Dec 2022 1:30 PMMost of the ankylosaur’s body was encased in bony plates that jutted out into jagged points, and some lugged around a sledgehammer-like tail club...