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World's most miserable fish faces extinction
10-12-2010 |
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The permanantly miserable looking blobfish is facing extinction due to overfishing.
One third of extinct animals turn up again
10-3-2010 | 11
Scientists believe that conservationists are overestimating the number of species that go extinct.
Last surviving Dodo egg could be tested
8-29-2010 | 7
The last known surviving egg of the extinct dodo could be sent away for DNA testing to confirm its prevalence.
Woolly mammoth extinction not due to humans
8-19-2010 | 13
A new university study has suggested that mammoths died out due to dwindling grasslands rather than being hunted.
Stephen Hawking: "It's time to leave Earth."
8-14-2010 | 124
Stephen Hawking has said that mankind must leave Earth within a century or face becoming extinct.
'Extinct' loris rediscovered
7-20-2010 | 10
The Horton Plains slender lori has been photographed for the first time having been believed to be extintinct.
Mass extinctions 'every 27m years'
7-14-2010 | 21
According to palaeontologists a mass extinction event occurs on Earth every 27 million years.
Human race 'will be extinct within 100 years'
6-19-2010 | 113
A microbiology professor who helped eradicate smallpox has claimed we will be extinct within only 100 years.
Humans could owe their existence to fish extinction
5-19-2010 | 8
Modern humans could owe their existence to a mass extinction of fish that happened 360 million years ago.
Invisible star 'shooting comets at Earth'
3-14-2010 | 48
A brown dwarf star could be circling the sun and throwing extinction sized comets in our direction.
DNA extracted from extinct bird eggshells
3-13-2010 |
For the first time scientists have succeeded in extracting DNA from the eggshells of extinct birds.
It's official: an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
3-6-2010 | 36
A global team of scientists have announced that an asteroid impact is the only plausible cause for the dinosaurs' extinction.
Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago
1-28-2010 | 6
New research conducted by Professor Joao Zilhao and colleagues places the extinction of the neanderthals at 37,000 years ago.
Humans were once an endangered species
1-23-2010 | 24
Scientists have determined that approximately 1.2 million years ago humans were on the verge of extinction.
Scientists to back-breed extinct giant cattle
1-19-2010 | 18
Massive beasts that would have once roamed the Earth in their droves before becoming extinct may soon be making a comeback.
Extinction firestorm theory questionned
12-29-2009 | 4
The massive asteroid impact that is thought to have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs may not have sparked a gl...
Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning
12-28-2009 | 18
In a world first scientists have succeeded in cloning an extinct species of animal by combining DNA from skin samples of...
Antarctica was refuge in extinction event
12-5-2009 | 5
New fossil evidence has suggested that some land animals would have survived the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million...
Dung helps reveal why mammoths died out
11-21-2009 | 5
Examination of the fungus found in ancient mammoth dung has revealed new information about what might have brought them ...
Algae: a key player in mass extinctions?
10-22-2009 | 4
A new study suggests that algae could be responsible for the extinction of many of the world's prehistoric species, with...
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