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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
In 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
Extinctions 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
Tech 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
Humans 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
Researchers 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
Most 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...
