Please sit back in a comfortable and drink coffee with me, be careful not to spill coffee on your lap. Please let my words sink in, even if you have religious convictions that contradicts, my honestly given...
A new study finds Tyrannosaurus Rex may have become extinct due to the work of a small one-celled parasitic organism, which caused lacerations in the dinosaur's jaw bone. The disease trichomoniasis gallinae causes lesions in the beaks of modern birds of prey, and Australian...
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Pandas should be allowed to go extinct because they are suck in an "evolutionary cul-de-sac" and that we should "pull the plug"on our conservation efforts, according to BBC presenter and naturalist Chris Packham....
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A legendary bird that ate humans is more than a Maori legend. Te Hokioi, a bird with talons as big as tigers' paws, existed in the form of Haast's eagle, which became extinct around 500 years ago when humans killed its main prey, the moa. Sir Julius von Haast discovered the...
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China's giant panda might be exinct in as little as two generations, according to a report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The panda's natural habitat is constantly shrinking, being split up in small patches that do not connect. This is a threat to their genetic...
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The world's original apple tree may become extinct, this is the apple tree according to Biblical stories was said to have grew in the Garden of Eden. As well as that apple tree, another 50 trees and bushes are on...
The debate continues to rage about the evolution of humans. The finding of human skeletons on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 has intriqued palaeoanthropologists and sparked fierce debates. ...
UPDATE 1:" Jun 03, 2009 (Voice of America News/ContentWorks via COMTEX) In Kenya, parliament is being asked to ban a pesticide that's been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of animals, including many lions. Kenyan...
A stash of tools from the Clovis era has been found in a site near Boulder Colorado, which provides evidence of the fact that people used them to butcher ice-age camels and horses before they were extinct 13,000...
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With only 300 fluent speakers of Cornish left the UN has declared the language officially extinct. The UN believes that their have effectively been no speakers of Cornish as a first language since 1777 and so...
Researchers from the University of Delhi and the Free University of Brussels have discovered twelve new species of frogs at night while hiking in the mountains during monsoon season. The twelve frogs are of the...
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TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia - Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives: It was...
The Pine Marten has recently been seen in England and Wales again after almost 15 years after they were officially declared extinct in both those two countries. They were almost wiped out after persecution from...
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The Cheetah is the latest animal to be added to the Endangered Species List, along with 21 other species, including three dolphin species, six bird species and African wild dogs. The Cheetah is actually extinct in...
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Scientists are working on creating a living Mammoth (extinct elephant relative) from recovered hair, and expect to be able to do it for less than $10 million (the price of one of McCain's homes- before the housing market blew out). If they're successful, this means that,...