Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

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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 ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

The loss of these birds will lead to the unraveling or to the complete collapse of entire ecosystems. An adult male yellow-bellied sunbird-asity (Neodrepanis hypoxantha) in Ranomafana National Park, ...

ARK: Survival Ascended is a next-generation remaster of the open-world dinosaur survival game ARK: Survival Evolved, harnessing the power of Unreal Engine 5. In the game survivors wake up stranded, ...

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 ...

Snail, Inc. is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its flagship game, ARK: Survival Evolved, which has amassed over 92.1 million installs and more than 3.7 billion total play hours on Steam. The ...

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Much like the meaning of de-extinction, Colossal redefines what it means to be a species. In a remarkable bit of lawfare, Colossal has filed patents that, if accepted as written by the Patent and ...

Think having 2.1 kids per woman keeps the human race humming along? A new study suggests that number might be too low. Researchers in a new study published in the journal PLOS One argue the classic ...