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Species Extinction is a Humanist Issue

Biowizard: Biodiversity strategy tool for businesses

This giant stick insect fooled scientists for decades

Scientists have identified two new species of large Australian stick insects, including one that lays extraordinary “lidded” eggs never before recorded in the group. The discovery also revealed that a familiar stick insect had been misidentified for decades, showing how much biodiversity may still be hiding in plain sight.

Permian extinction - Carbon Cycle, Mass Extinction, Marine Life

Oklahoma crater may be 100 million years younger than thought, shifting it toward a mass extinction event

Scientists just fixed the timeline of Oklahoma meteor crater—and linked it to a mass extinction

Biodiversity conservation: threats and how to help

A Buried Oklahoma Crater Was Dated to the Wrong Era—and It Actually Lines Up With a Mass Extinction

This 245-million-year-old fossil still has its stomach and intestines

A 245-million-year-old marine reptile fossil preserves an astonishing amount of detail, including its stomach, liver, and intestines. The discovery reveals that Austronaga minuta was highly adapted for swimming even though its digestive system remained surprisingly simple.

Will Earth's magnetic poles flip soon, and could it trigger a mass extinction?

Scientists were wrong about this strange mammal for nearly 40 years

A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of modern placental mammals, despite having teeth that seemed to suggest they were. Instead, the rabbit-like animal belonged to a separate lineage of small Cretaceous mammals.

Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species