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by Tom Stiglich at CDN - Click to read the rest HERE-> Extinct first posted at Conservative Daily News

How Human Extinction Became the Default Setting

The hum stopped gradually, then all at once. Not with explosion. With silence spreading from the coasts inward, Tuesday afternoon in late October, when the eastern grid finally col...

‘We’re in a mass extinction event right now’ | Researcher makes new discovery from fossils at Big Bone Lick

Fossils unearthed in Boone County are revealing new secrets about life during the ice age. A former UC professor says they can also tell us a lot about our world today.

Africa’s Giant Herbivores Were Disappearing Millions of Years Before Humans Could Hunt Them

Africa’s giant herbivores did not simply vanish in a wave of extinctions. Their evolutionary family tree was slowly running out of new branches. A new study suggests that the long...

Dynamic Land-Use Model Reveals Extinction Risk May Spike Abruptly, and Protected Areas Can Bend the Curve

Every estimate of how many species humanity will lose to deforestation, urbanization, and agricultural expansion rests on a quiet mathematical assumption: that habitat disappears i...

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Stranger Than We Thought

Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and new research suggests it was no ordinary rock. The Chi...

Magnetic Field Reversals and Extinctions: The Correlation Won't Go Away.

Scientists have wondered about a connection between Earth's geomagnetic reversals, or pole flips, and mass extinctions. They've found correlations, but nothing convincing enough to...

Earth entered its ‘bad decades’ after dinosaur-ending asteroid strike

We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs

Book Essay: The Sixth Extinction and the Demise of Biodiversity

Species loss ought to be a topic of paramount importance. Satyajit Das uses a new book on biodiversity, Lost Animal, as a point of departure.

The end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now

A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift,...

Choose Your Own Doomsday: Select from These Alarming Options, Scientists Say

In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called "The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, redefining evolutionary code." Source

‘Lid’ of asteroid dust smothered and burned the dinosaurs, say scientists

Heat and fire may have caused the mass extinction of Cretaceous creatures The post ‘Lid’ of asteroid dust smothered and burned the dinosaurs, say scientists appeared first on Physi...

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I.U.C.N. Red List Classifies Most Shallow Coral Reefs as Critically Endangered

If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef.

Ames crater, once linked to a 470-million-year-old event, may be nearly 370 million years old

Research indicates that the Ames impact structure may have formed during the Late Devonian period. This finding challenges earlier beliefs connecting the structure to the Ordovicia...