In 1991, botanists Calaway Dodson and Alwyn Gentry advanced a striking proposition. Surveying a rapidly deforested ridge in western Ecuador, they suggested that dozens of plant species known only from ...
Extinction can be a hard reality to confront. It’s one thing to learn about animals like the woolly mammoth or the dodo, ...
The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...
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Gigantopithecus - the largest ape that ever existed
Gigantopithecus was the largest ape to ever walk the Earth. Standing taller and heavier than any human, it dominated prehistoric forests. But size became a liability when environments shifted. Diet ...
A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...
A real T. rex is coming to the Nutmeg State in an event where visitors can learn how the apex predator met its own demise. The Bruce Museum in Greenwich will be hosting the "Six Extinctions" exhibit ...
Christopher Lean receives funding from the Australian Government through the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (project number CE200100029). Andrew James Latham has been supported by a ...
Johannes M. Luetz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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