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Hace 1 día · Unsuited for the warmer conditions and under constant pressure from hungry humans, the horned beast went extinct for good about 8700 years ago, the team concludes. Besides humans, few predators would have been able to take down an adult woolly rhino, but their young could fall prey to apex predators such as cave lions and cave hyenas.
Hace 1 día · Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, Harvard biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light on an unknown corner of avian genetic history. Published in Science Advances, the work is the first complete genetic map of the turkey-sized bird whose distant ...
Hace 1 día · A. pleistocaenicus went extinct around 500,000 years ago. This massive cheetah's demise was likely influenced by climate change that occurred during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, ...
Hace 4 días · If we should ever perfect time travel, ecologists will be lining up for trips to study the bizarre zoology of the past. With that in mind, here are nine otherworldly examples of now-extinct...
Hace 1 día · The last of the mihirungs went extinct around 45,000 years ago. The only skull, found in 1913, was incomplete and badly damaged, raising questions about the giant bird’s face, habits and ancestry.
Hace 1 día · Known as “Newton’s thunder bird,” the species stood more than six feet tall and weighed as much as 500 pounds. Now, in a study published Monday in the journal Historical Biology, researchers ...
Hace 2 días · The Cretaceous–Paleogene ( K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, [b] was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, [2] [3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
