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SUDDEN EXTINCTION EVENTS
In 2024, researchers challenged a decades-old theory about the extinction of woolly mammoths that they didn't die out the way we thoughtScientists now believe a sudden event caused the extinction of the last woolly mammoths. These mammoths became isolated on Wrangel Island a...- Earth’s North Pole has moved 1,400 miles. What happens next has experts paying attentionEarth’s magnetic north pole has been quietly on the move for decades, traveling thousands of miles from its original position in Canada tow...
- Word of the Day: RecrudescenceRecrudescence is a word that encapsulates the inevitability of return, whether in health, history or human emotion. It serves as a reminder...
- What Lies Beneath California’s Coast Is Changing How We See Ice Age HistoryBeneath California's modern coastline lie remnants of an ancient Ice Age landscape, revealed by submerged village sites and megafauna fossi...
- 66-Million-Year-Old Climate Shift After Dinosaurs ExplainedSixty-six million years ago, an asteroid strike and volcanic eruptions triggered a global climate catastrophe. Earth plunged into a deep fr...
- What happened 200 million years ago which led to unexplained marine extinctions? Answer lies near a lake in TibetAncient marine extinctions, previously a mystery, are now linked to massive underwater volcanic eruptions in the Tethys Ocean. Rocks from T...
- How were dinosaurs’ last days on Earth before the asteroid hit? New evidence shows they were wiped out in their primeNew findings indicate dinosaurs were flourishing just before the asteroid strike. Fossils from New Mexico show diverse and healthy dinosaur...
- They survived ice ages and hunted mammoths; so why did the Neanderthals suddenly disappear? Now a physicist blames something in the skyScientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This event weakened...
- End of worlds, an ongoing apocalypseThere have been five mass extinctions on Earth in the past. The sixth extinction refers to the accelerated, widespread extinctions (plural ...
- Urgent need to focus on soil conservation, review policies brought in for Green Revolution: SadhguruOn stray cattle, which had become a poll issue in Uttar Pradesh recently, he said bovine animals are an asset and people keeping them shoul...
- Why Tonga is a Special CountryWhen the submarine volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai erupted on Saturday, forming a tsunami whose effects could be felt as far away as the ...
- Environmentalise Marshall Plan: Conditions, new markets and new value chains India urgently needsThe government has to assume the role of a 'demo and R&D farm' — collecting and sandboxing innovative solutions and scaling them effectivel...
- Big lesson from Maharashtra: Congress in danger of extinctionThe grand old party is third in the maximum city and has been knocked out of contention in almost every major city in the state.
- 'Big chill' after asteroid strike likely killed dinosaurs, suggests study
- Humans, climate change together felled Ice Age giants: StudyThe timing and cause of rapid extinctions of the megafauna, that roamed the plains of Patagonia in southern South America, has remained a m...
- Children of War: Horrors of Bangla Liberation War revisitedThe film revolves around civilians caught in the nine-month conflict which pitted Bangladeshi independence fighters against Pakistani Army.
- A Chancy SurvivalThe fact that 65 million years ago all the dinosaurs got wiped out in an analogous asteroidal impact doesn’t really matter to us today beca...
- Dinosaur whodunit: Is Shiva crater the missing link?It could be the plot of a mega disaster movie. A huge asteroid, nearly 40 km in diameter, comes hurtling towards earth.
- The mystery of life and deathAfter all these years having diligently worked her fingers to the bone, death suddenly decides to go on a holiday in Portuguese writer Jose...
- Faulty sleep switch may cause near-death experienceDeath is an undiscovered country, Shakespeare said, from whose bourne no traveller ever returns.
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