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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dodo in the birds exhibition room at the Natural History Museum on 19th January 2024 in London, United Kingdom. Scientists have ...

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

We've come to the end of a year at the end of a decade. If it had a color, it'd be green. Its signature image? How about that of the plight of the polar bears — former kings of the wild floating on ...

Could you run for 100 hours this year? How about just doing a little more than 15 minutes each day? In fact, these goals are essentially equivalent, but one certainly sounds more ambitious than the ...

It troubles me deeply to hear about the massive wave of extinctions that scientists predict are coming if we don’t address the current human assault on our natural environment. I am wondering what we ...

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Sympoietic Encounters: Making With-in the Sixth Great Extinction,” an exhibition of animation, drawing, painting and performance by 13 students, curated by Yindi ...

The Sepkoski Curve, representing marine diversity at the taxonomic level of families over the last 600 million years. The 'Big Five' mass extinctions are labeled at the troughs of the diversity curve, ...