Every new extinction ripples out beyond the affected species, from ecosystems to human knowledge across culture, spirituality ...
Sixty-six million years ago, dinosaurs had the ultimate bad day. With a devastating asteroid impact, a reign that had lasted 180 million years was abruptly ended. Our dinosaur researcher Professor ...
The scientists who were among the first to declare the world’s sixth mass extinction event was already underway in a 2015 study, have published new research revealing the rate at which wildlife is ...
How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor genetics as ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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Scientists say they are racing against time to name and describe new plants, before species go extinct. Plants and fungi hold promise as future medicines, fuels and foods, according to the Royal ...
We speak to Max Tegmark, a professor at MIT and a signatory to the warning of the dangers of AI as an extinction level threat to humanity. Some of the world’s most influential tech geniuses and ...
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