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Crocodile ancestors survived two mass extinctions—here’s how
In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...
Is this really a dire wolf? Here’s how the ‘de-extinct’ pups compare to the real thing.
The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...
Ancient DNA research aids de-extinction efforts and reveals surprising dire wolf ancestry
Colossal Biosciences made global headlines when they announced that they had successfully brought the dire wolf back from ...
Why are there colorful cow statues in SLO County? The story behind moo-ving art
San Luis Obispo artists Neal Breton and Missy Reitner-Cameron created “Dia de los Moouertos Cow,” a skeletal steer decorated ...
Meet Your 62-Million-Year-Old Cousin: Stunning Fossil Links Mysterious Ancient Mammal to Humans
New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate ...
780,000-Year-Old Discovery Reveals That Early Humans Thrived on a Plant-Based Diet
A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ...
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Did Scientists Actually De-Extinct the Dire Wolf?
Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype ...
Cows abandoned on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean 150 years ago develop a unique evolutionary story with an unsettling ending
After being abandoned by failed setters, a rare breed of wild cows flourished on a remote island in the Southern Indian Ocean ...