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Experts believe the planet was once home to more than five billion species that eventually went extinct—around 99% of the total number that have existed at some point in time. That includes the dire ...

In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the hit HBO show have been announced as the world’s first de-extinct animal. By Degen Pener Deputy Editor ...

Yoshimura’s serene, life-affirming music deserves the widest audience possible, and this reissue of Flora is one more step on the way to expanding it. As Slade In Flame turns 50, Noddy Holder ...

Dire wolves were much larger than the non-extinct gray wolf; they weighed anywhere from 130 to 150 pounds, stood about three feet at the shoulder and were about six feet long. Who are Romulus and ...

Dame Flora Duffy has revealed she picked up a glute and hip issue during the opening race of the T100 World Triathlon Tour Series in Singapore on Saturday [April 5]. Duffy, along with Finland’s ...

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Who were the Denisovans? Denisovans are the first group of ancient extinct archaic humans to have been discovered based on their DNA alone, even though this happened by accident. Mark Cuban ...

Discovered over 160 years ago, Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct branch of life. Prototaxites in an Early ...

entirely extinct group of eukaryotes,” the authors note. With no known taxonomic group sharing its combination of anatomy, chemistry, and lifestyle, Prototaxites stands apart. It was a eukaryote – ...

The team concluded that Prototaxites cannot be placed in any known group of life—fungi, plant, animal, or algae. They believe it came from an entirely extinct lineage of eukaryotes, a broad ...