Paleontology Climate Change Likely Drove the Extinction of North America’s Largest Animals (Paleontology) 16 Feb 2021 New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests…
Paleontology Leaf Fossils Show Severe End-Cretaceous Plant extinction in southern Argentina (Paleontology) 5 Jan 2021 The asteroid impact 66 million years ago that ushered in a mass extinction and ended the dinosaurs also killed off many of the plants that they relied on for food.…
Paleontology Early Mammal With Remarkably Precise Bite (Paleontology) 24 Dec 2020 Researchers investigate teeth of a small carnivorous mammal that are almost 150 million years old. Paleontologists at the University of Bonn (Germany) have succeeded in reconstructing the chewing motion of…
Biology Ringo Starr Of The Bird World Heading for Extinction (Ornithology / Biology) 20 Dec 2020 New research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows palm cockatoos, renowned for their human-like musical drumming behaviour, are threatened with extinction. According to co-author Professor Rob Heinsohn, the "animal…
Biology… New Computer Program Predicts Future Extinctions (Biology / Nature) 20 Dec 2020 A new computer program for predicting future species extinctions has been developed as part of a PhD thesis at the University of Gothenburg. Tobias Andermann, PhD student at the Department…
Paleontology Flightless Bird Species at Risk of Extinction (Paleontology) 4 Dec 2020 Bird species that have lost the ability to fly through evolution have become extinct more often than birds that have retained their ability to fly, according to new research from…
Paleontology New Analysis Refutes Claim That Dinosaurs Were in Decline Before Asteroid Hit (Paleontology) 29 Nov 2020 A new statistical analysis of dinosaur diversity shows they were not in decline at the time of their extinction by an asteroid hit 66 million years ago. Researchers from the…
