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While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos have features that indicate they could ...

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An Australian flowering plant not seen for close to 60 years had been presumed extinct. Then, a photo taken in June 2025 was ...

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About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

The Triassic period marked a chaotic chapter in Earth’s history following the planet’s largest mass extinction. This ...

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