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Are Humans the Only Species to Drive Others to Extinction? And More Questions From Our Readers
Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California Human activities are the most prominent cause of species extinction today, but not the only one.
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The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs, As Explained by Extinction Events
Dinosaurs finally met their end, but only partially. Many of their descendants—modern birds—are currently threatened by extinction, with hundreds of species at risk due to human activity. This article ...
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HALTING THE EXTINCTION CRISIS
The current extinction crisis is entirely of our own making. More than a century of habitat destruction, pollution, the spread of invasive species, overharvest from the wild, climate change, ...
Colossal Bioscience's attempt to de-extinct the dire wolf is a dangerously deceptive publicity stunt
Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the ...
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Pollen and charcoal reveal human-driven collapse of swamp cypress forests 2,100 years ago
The conclusion that human activity played a decisive role in the ... contributing to the local extinction of various species, including elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, green peafowl, crocodiles ...
U.S. News & World Report18d
Human Fertility Levels Need To Be Higher To Avoid Extinction
Human Fertility Levels Need To Be Higher To Avoid Extinction By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made headlines ...
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Experts deploy 'Trojan' strategy to save rare species from extinction: 'We're excited'
"This project is a great example of how multiple agencies can work together." Experts deploy 'Trojan' strategy to save rare species from extinction: 'We're excited' first appeared on The Cool Down.
There’s No ‘Undo’ Button for Extinct Species
When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...
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This Earth Day, progress for our species protects others
De-extinction is among the extraordinary conservation ... and leopards are all native to Europe but were eliminated from the continent by human activity in antiquity. As historian Richard Hoffmann ...
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This is the number of babies each woman needs to have to avoid human extinction—and the U.S. is nowhere close
With fewer women having babies, scientists say, humans in most countries face extinction.
De-extinction or pre-extinction? Biotech company's resurrected 'dire wolves' raise questions
Scientists created a version of the extinct dire wolf. But we should be directing our resources to preventing extinction in ...
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New study reveals the devastating force that drove dinosaurs to extinction
Our method can be scaled up… it's quite resistant to human bias," Cox ... causes include volcanic activity, climate change, and ocean anoxia. Triassic-Jurassic Extinction (about 201 million ...