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The Dire Wolf Is Back
Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...
Science Daily5d
Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.
Flowering plants, not dinosaurs, drove mammals to ground 72 million years ago
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
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Supernovas may have had a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
“It was the enrichment of iridium in Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary sediments that was the highly convincing ‘smoking gun’ for the dinosaur extinction when (the) idea was first published in 198 ...
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Supernovas may have had a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
A city-size asteroid slammed into Earth off the coast of what’s now Mexico one fateful day 66 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs and many other species to extinction.Researchers first identified ...