commonly known as the short-faced kangaroo. This fossil, recovered from a cave near Buchan in Gippsland, Australia, is one of the most complete skeletons of an extinct species found in the country ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Extinct species are every bit as interesting as those that are found in the wild today–perhaps ...

Aug. 29, 2024 — A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one, but two different carnivores -- a crocodilian and a shark -- is revealing clues into both the predation ...

The dodo was the first recorded extinction directly caused by humans and witnessed in real time, and it went extinct a century before the scientific rules of naming species were formalized ...

That’s just one example. Size estimates of many of the planet’s extinct giants have been called into question in the last decade as new data and analytical techniques have emerged, researchers ...

Earth’s extinct volcanoes might be an untapped source of highly in-demand rare earth elements. A set of lab-based experiments revealed that some of these 17 elements could be lurking in the ...

University of Southampton If humanity ever goes extinct, scientists now have a backup plan: a coin-sized crystal storing the entire human genome. Future species could use this record as an ...

Video footage has captured the roo bouncing around tables inside the Busselton KFC, with a second video showing the kangaroo bounding out of the fast food restaurant and through the parking lot.

Paleogeneticist Beth Shapiro says the science may be flawed, but cloning extinct species is more realistic than you may think. In fact, that work is already underway — but with the slightly ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a new reconstruction of Earth’s deep past. By Raymond Zhong Over the past ...

A mysterious type of magma found within extinct volcanoes scattered around the world could contain an abundant supply of rare earth elements, crucial ingredients for electric vehicles, wind ...

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