One of the most notorious mass extinction events in modern times occurred on a hilltop in coastal Ecuador in the 1980s. Ninety species of plants known from nowhere else on Earth—many of them new ...

Modern mass extinction in an Ecuadorean cloud forest found to be a mirage. ScienceDaily . Retrieved November 5, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 / 241015141501.htm ...

The genome of the extinct thylacine has been nearly completely sequenced, de-extinction company Colossal has announced. It says the genome is more than 99.9 per cent complete, with just 45 gaps ...

This asteroid impact caused a global mass extinction but also created ideal ... The True Global Impact of Species-Loss Caused by Humans Is Far Greater Than Expected Oct. 3, 2024 — The extinction ...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced at least 40 percent of tree species around the world are at risk of extinction, according to a Monday release from the ...

The Tasmanian tiger, a wolf-like marsupial that once stalked the forests of Tasmania, could be brought back from extinction after a team of US and Australian researchers claimed a series of ...

More than a third of all tree species worldwide face extinction, threatening ecosystems, plants, animals and economies around the world, experts warned Monday. In all, 38% of trees are at risk ...

"We are beginning the era of human extinction. I do not think I am exaggerating," Colombian President Gustavo Petro said. Petro said that the world cannot wait for it to be profitable to save ...

"We need to stop focusing on the 'if' and shift the narrative to how we can thoughtfully use this new technology to preserve and revive biodiversity in the midst of the sixth mass extinction." ...

also known as the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary event, was an extinction event that occurred approximately 485 million years ago (mya) in the Paleozoic era of the early Phanerozoic eon. It was preceded ...