3 min read During the Ordovician period ... this line of backboned animals later went extinct. Fish started becoming more widespread in the fossil record. They were small and had downward-pointing ...

Unfortunately, animals go extinct every single year, often due to human activity. As we move towards a more sustainable ...

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We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story.

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times ... they could become the fourth subspecies of tiger to go extinct. The large yellow-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis denticulata (vulnerable), from ...

Scientists say it's not fully clear why they went extinct, and the last reported animal died in Poland in 1627, with either human activity or a change in the climate being the main suspects in the ...

On the extreme end is the "Jurassic Park” argument; should we really reintroduce animals that evolved and subsequently went extinct eons ago into a world completely alien to them? Despite what the ...

They also stand in three decidedly different camps regarding why America's rich complement of big animals went extinct quite suddenly at the end of the Ice Age. The three camps are known tongue in ...

It’s not entirely clear when wild native brown bears went extinct in the UK ... This top carnivore is a pack animal, with wolves hunting together in groups to take down larger prey, like ...

but what we see is that the animals that go extinct seem to be responding to decreased global oxygen availability." The study by Evans and Xiao is timelier than one would think. In an unconnected ...

Professor Beth Shapiro, chief science officer at Colossal, said that she had a "very long list" of extinct animals she hopes ... 2.5 million years ago until it went extinct approximately 11,000 ...

Narrator: But as far as important species go, bees are near the top of the list ... could have a disastrous domino effect, killing off animals that eat those plants, and so on up the food chain.