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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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FEB 26, 2015Neuroscience
A single gene may have helped pave the way for the rise of human intelligence by dramatically increasing the number of n ...Written By: Jennifer EllisFEB 02, 2015Plants & Animals
A rare and stunning creature may soon go the way of the dodo bird if scientists are correct in their predictions. The bl ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJAN 24, 2015Videos
Exiled from the tropical paradise where they evolved, a tiny population of remarkable stick insects dodged extinction by ...Written By: Greg CruikshankNOV 06, 2014Plants & Animals
It was a sad day recently at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Suni, a northern white rhinoceros, was found dead in hi ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 30, 2014Genetics & Genomics
For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, s ...Written By: Peter MicheliSEP 25, 2014Earth & The Environment
There have been five "mass extinctions" on Earth. These are periods when extremely large numbers of species go extinct. ...Written By: Peter MicheliJUL 25, 2014Space & Astronomy
About 2,000 planets have been discovered to date, making the possibility of the existence of intelligent alien life seem ...Written By: Peter MicheliJUL 22, 2014Plants & Animals
In October 2006, reports came in from beekeepers that some of them were losing 30% to 90% of their hives. While some los ...Written By: Peter MicheliJUL 07, 2014Genetics & Genomics
It's thought that in the 1800's the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was the most numerous bird in the world, w ...Written By: Peter MicheliMAY 29, 2014Cell & Molecular Biology
Synthetic biology uses elemental building blocks and an engineering approach to create biological systems for specific u ...Written By: Peter MicheliAPR 30, 2014Earth & The Environment
To conservationists, the so-called "equilibrium theory of island biogeography" is a standard assumption used when predic ...APR 11, 2014Microbiology
It is well known that some event took place over 250 million years in the past that caused a mass extinction on Earth, t ...MAR 14, 2014Chemistry & Physics
A couple of theoretical physicists have come up with an interesting and somewhat controversial variant of the meteorite- ...FEB 11, 2014Genetics & Genomics
Thanks to the relatively recent development of genome mapping, scientists have been able to delve deeper than ever into ...JAN 07, 2014Earth & The Environment
For years, scientists and conservationists have been concerned about the decreasing number of species on earth, and the ...
FEB 26, 2015
Neuroscience
A single gene may have helped pave the way for the rise of human intelligence by dramatically increasing the number of n
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
FEB 02, 2015
Plants & Animals
A rare and stunning creature may soon go the way of the dodo bird if scientists are correct in their predictions. The bl
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 24, 2015
Videos
Exiled from the tropical paradise where they evolved, a tiny population of remarkable stick insects dodged extinction by
...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
NOV 06, 2014
Plants & Animals
It was a sad day recently at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Suni, a northern white rhinoceros, was found dead in hi
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 30, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, s
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
SEP 25, 2014
Earth & The Environment
There have been five "mass extinctions" on Earth. These are periods when extremely large numbers of species go extinct.
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
JUL 25, 2014
Space & Astronomy
About 2,000 planets have been discovered to date, making the possibility of the existence of intelligent alien life seem
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
JUL 22, 2014
Plants & Animals
In October 2006, reports came in from beekeepers that some of them were losing 30% to 90% of their hives. While some los
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
JUL 07, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
It's thought that in the 1800's the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was the most numerous bird in the world, w
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
MAY 29, 2014
Cell & Molecular Biology
Synthetic biology uses elemental building blocks and an engineering approach to create biological systems for specific u
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
APR 30, 2014
Earth & The Environment
To conservationists, the so-called "equilibrium theory of island biogeography" is a standard assumption used when predic
...
APR 11, 2014
Microbiology
It is well known that some event took place over 250 million years in the past that caused a mass extinction on Earth, t
...
MAR 14, 2014
Chemistry & Physics
A couple of theoretical physicists have come up with an interesting and somewhat controversial variant of the meteorite-
...
FEB 11, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
Thanks to the relatively recent development of genome mapping, scientists have been able to delve deeper than ever into
...
JAN 07, 2014
Earth & The Environment
For years, scientists and conservationists have been concerned about the decreasing number of species on earth, and the
...