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Study resurrects mammoth DNA to explore the cause of their extinction

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, resurrected the mutated genes of the last herd of woolly mammoths and found that their small population had developed ...

Myth of Native Hawaiians causing bird extinctions debunked by study

Challenging a 50-year-old narrative about Hawaiʻi's native birds, a new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa found ...
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Volcanism, impacts, and mass extinctions : causes and effects / edited by Gerta Keller and Andrew C. Kerr

Mass extinctions, volcanism, and impacts: The geological extinction record : history, data, biases, and testing / Norman MacLeod -- Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions : an update / ...
The Conversation

Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the ocean’s biodiversity

Stewart Edie receives funding from the Smithsonian Institution. Even groups that weathered the catastrophe, such as mammals, fishes and flowering plants, suffered severe population declines and ...
CNN

New research, at odds with 2023 study, argues we’re not witnessing a sixth mass extinction event

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...