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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a species of plants or animals. The death of the last individual of the species is generally regarded as the moment of extinction. More than one in four species on Earth currently faces extinction.
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OCT 02, 2016Plants & Animals
A lot of smaller animals that are prey to larger ones are always on the watch for predators, but in some instances, thos ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2016Plants & Animals
After unearthing a mammoth skull just off the coast of California, archaeologists were stumped by some unusual character ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 26, 2016Plants & Animals
The giant tortoise is an icon for conservation on the Galapagos Islands. They can get really big, but their population n ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 19, 2016Plants & Animals
There are tons of scientists who are reportedly convinced up to 40% of the world’s lizard species could go extinct ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 11, 2016Plants & Animals
Science today is becoming a lot more like the science fiction of 30 years ago. The minds of great scientists have come u ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 06, 2016Plants & Animals
It was a normal day above the ocean, but scientists would soon realize that after sending an observation sub up to 2,000 ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 06, 2016Videos
Environmental experts have been warning people for decades about climate change and global warming. The loss of so much ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 05, 2016Plants & Animals
Although the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has marked the Eastern Gorilla as critically endanger ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 05, 2016Plants & Animals
A myriad of animal species around the world are struggling to stay alive, and now you can add Eastern Gorillas (Gorilla ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 01, 2016Plants & Animals
The Galapagos Islands have been all the recent buzz swirling around the discovery of a native species of songbird that i ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 26, 2016Earth & The Environment
Gray wolves were hunted into near extinction by the early 1930s in Washington state and in 1978 the U.S. Fish and Wildli ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 25, 2016Plants & Animals
For the first time in about 10 years, an Arabian sand cat (Felis margarita harrisoni) was photographed in the wild in th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 18, 2016Plants & Animals
What happened to the wooly mammoth that caused the species to go extinct? Scientists believe that a lack of water ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 30, 2016Earth & The Environment
“Ecosystems don’t collapse, they shift from one steady state to another, and that’s simply what happen ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 21, 2016Microbiology
Publishing in eLife, researchers at Stanford University have begun to reveal the extent of the influence viruses have ha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 14, 2016Plants & Animals
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that the Bornean Orangutan species has been ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 25, 2016Plants & Animals
What if we told you that giant pandas don’t really have the high metabolisms that you’ve been told they had ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 21, 2016Videos
A rodent found only on a tiny island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been declared extinct. Zoology experts and en ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 13, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Gene drive is a term used to describe the preferential dissemination of some versions of a gene to future generations.&n ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 08, 2016Plants & Animals
Biologists from Harvard University went on an exploration trip in the Bahamas in July of 2015, and what they’d fin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 31, 2016Plants & Animals
The South African Supreme Court has ruled that the ban on the domestic sale of rhino horns is to be put to an end. It&rs ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 28, 2016Videos
Would you be able to survive 2.5 million years ago? At the time, Earth was in the Pleistocene epoch. This geological epo ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetMAY 15, 2016Videos
The more we explore and learn about space, the more we realize how precarious our home on Earth really is. Perhaps this ...APR 29, 2016Plants & Animals
There is a lot going on with the fight to end animal poaching around the world, but a lot of the focus has to do with an ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2016
Plants & Animals
A lot of smaller animals that are prey to larger ones are always on the watch for predators, but in some instances, thos
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2016
Plants & Animals
After unearthing a mammoth skull just off the coast of California, archaeologists were stumped by some unusual character
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 26, 2016
Plants & Animals
The giant tortoise is an icon for conservation on the Galapagos Islands. They can get really big, but their population n
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 19, 2016
Plants & Animals
There are tons of scientists who are reportedly convinced up to 40% of the world’s lizard species could go extinct
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 11, 2016
Plants & Animals
Science today is becoming a lot more like the science fiction of 30 years ago. The minds of great scientists have come u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 06, 2016
Plants & Animals
It was a normal day above the ocean, but scientists would soon realize that after sending an observation sub up to 2,000
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 06, 2016
Videos
Environmental experts have been warning people for decades about climate change and global warming. The loss of so much
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 05, 2016
Plants & Animals
Although the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has marked the Eastern Gorilla as critically endanger
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 05, 2016
Plants & Animals
A myriad of animal species around the world are struggling to stay alive, and now you can add Eastern Gorillas (Gorilla
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 01, 2016
Plants & Animals
The Galapagos Islands have been all the recent buzz swirling around the discovery of a native species of songbird that i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 26, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Gray wolves were hunted into near extinction by the early 1930s in Washington state and in 1978 the U.S. Fish and Wildli
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 25, 2016
Plants & Animals
For the first time in about 10 years, an Arabian sand cat (Felis margarita harrisoni) was photographed in the wild in th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 18, 2016
Plants & Animals
What happened to the wooly mammoth that caused the species to go extinct? Scientists believe that a lack of water
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 30, 2016
Earth & The Environment
“Ecosystems don’t collapse, they shift from one steady state to another, and that’s simply what happen
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 21, 2016
Microbiology
Publishing in eLife, researchers at Stanford University have begun to reveal the extent of the influence viruses have ha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 14, 2016
Plants & Animals
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that the Bornean Orangutan species has been
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 25, 2016
Plants & Animals
What if we told you that giant pandas don’t really have the high metabolisms that you’ve been told they had
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 21, 2016
Videos
A rodent found only on a tiny island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been declared extinct. Zoology experts and en
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 13, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Gene drive is a term used to describe the preferential dissemination of some versions of a gene to future generations.&n
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 08, 2016
Plants & Animals
Biologists from Harvard University went on an exploration trip in the Bahamas in July of 2015, and what they’d fin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 31, 2016
Plants & Animals
The South African Supreme Court has ruled that the ban on the domestic sale of rhino horns is to be put to an end. It&rs
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 28, 2016
Videos
Would you be able to survive 2.5 million years ago? At the time, Earth was in the Pleistocene epoch. This geological epo
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAY 15, 2016
Videos
The more we explore and learn about space, the more we realize how precarious our home on Earth really is. Perhaps this
...
APR 29, 2016
Plants & Animals
There is a lot going on with the fight to end animal poaching around the world, but a lot of the focus has to do with an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard