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extinction

woolly mammoth

Life

Woolly mammoths were hit by climate change but humans wiped them out

The extinction of woolly mammoths was hastened by a warming climate that shrank and fragmented their habitat, and was then exacerbated by human hunting

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Gerard Butler stars in Greenland

Environment

Greenland review: A great comet disaster movie on Amazon Prime

Culture

passenger pigeon

Life

Genetics leaves little doubt that humans wiped out passenger pigeons

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Almost all lemur species are now officially endangered

Environment

Almost all lemur species are now officially endangered

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Photographer documents the fight to save pangolins from extinction

Environment

Photographer documents the fight to save pangolins from extinction

Regulars

Asteroid strike

Earth

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit just right for maximum damage

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All five of Earth's largest mass extinctions linked to global warming

Environment

All five of Earth's largest mass extinctions linked to global warming

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Extinction lottery: how should we choose which species to save?

Video

Extinction lottery: how should we choose which species to save?

Video

cave bear skeleton

Life

Europe’s cave bears may have died out because of their large sinuses

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Putorana plateau and mountains in Siberia, Russie

Earth

Rock peeling off continents may have triggered biggest mass extinction

The Permian extinction, which wiped out almost all complex life, may have been caused by the undersides of continents slipping off into Earth’s interior

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Life

Dino-killing asteroid choked whole world in dust within a few hours

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Life

The curious life and surprising death of the last dodo on Earth

Features

Life

Extinction is a fact of life. Could we stop it – or even reverse it?

Features

Environment

UK scientists join the Extinction Rebellion climate change protests

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