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World's most miserable fish faces extinction
10-12-2010 |
23
The permanantly miserable looking blobfish is facing extinction due to overfishing.
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.
Mass extinctions 'every 27m years'
7-14-2010 | 21
According to palaeontologists a mass extinction event occurs on Earth every 27 million 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.
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.
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...
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...
New fears for species extinctions
10-12-2009 | 8
Extinction rates are a lot higher than previously predicted with threats to biodiversity and ecosystems such as pollutio...
What (maybe) didn't kill the dinosaurs
10-4-2009 | 0
A new mechanism devised to explain how icy bodies from the Oort cloud get past Jupiter and Saturn has revealed that it i...
Mass extinction event spared Europe
9-27-2009 | 2
When a massive comet smashed in to the Earth 65 million years ago it caused widespread devastation that saw the end of t...
World's first shark sanctuary in Pacific
9-26-2009 | 2
The Pacific nation of Palau has set up the world's first shark sanctuary to help protect species from extinction. The sa...
How life survives an asteroid impact
9-13-2009 | 10
When an extinction asteroid collides with the Earth it can create a winter of endless darkness, but scientists have disc...
New creatures in an age of extinctions
7-29-2009 | 2
In an age when entire species are continuing to disappear from Earth's natural habitats on a regular basis there is stil...
One third of shark species at risk
6-30-2009 | 5
Conservationalists have revealed that one third of the world's shark species are under risk of extinction due to overfis...
Ancient volcano caused mass extinctions
6-1-2009 | 0
Scientists at the University of Leeds have discovered a previously unknown giant volcanic eruption that would have led t...
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