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Back from brink: India's vultures stage comeback as captive-breeding, release efforts gather pace- In 1980, a physicist studying a thin clay layer found an iridium spike, and it wasn’t just trace metal: It became one of the biggest clues behind the dinosaurs’ extinction
- A New Study Says the Jurassic Park T. rex May Have Moved More Like an Ostrich Compared to What We Thought Previously
- In 2013, scientists studying volcanic rocks near Mauritius uncovered ancient zircon clues that revealed a buried microcontinent beneath the Indian OceanScientists have found a piece of ancient Earth's crust hidden in the Indian Ocean. This submerged landmass, called Mauritia, is not a lost ...14 May, 2026, 04.01 PM IST
- Ancient fossils and shifting continents reveal a rewritten Earth storyPaleolatitude.org has been upgraded, allowing users to track continental drift and Earth's pole shifts over 320 million years. This tool, b...08 May, 2026, 11.58 AM IST
- Nobel Prize winner in Physics, David Gross says humanity may not survive 50 years - here are his chilling reasonsOver 12,000 nuclear warheads remain active across the globe today. Nine nations hold the power to end civilization as we know it. And accor...20 Apr, 2026, 06.33 PM IST
- Archaeologists discover early humans built vast island networks across the PhilippinesNew findings show ancient Filipinos were not isolated. They actively sailed across open oceans thousands of years ago. Mindoro island holds...20 Apr, 2026, 02.09 PM IST
- Dinosaurs could have survived had asteroid struck elsewhere: StudyTokyo, Nov 11 (IANS) Dinosaurs might not have gone extinct had the the asteroid that hit Earth some 66 million years ago and triggered the ...11 Nov, 2017, 12.32 PM IST
- Sixth mass extinction may begin by 2100: StudyResearchers from MIT in the US analysed significant changes in the carbon cycle over the last 540 million years, including the five mass ex...21 Sep, 2017, 02.03 PM IST
- Earth in biological annihilation era: ScientistsWashington, July 11 (IANS) Many scientists say it is "abundantly" clear that Earth is entering its sixth mass-extinction event, meaning thr...11 Jul, 2017, 12.57 PM IST
- What caused first mass extinction of life on Earth?New York, May 18 (IANS) A large volcanic eruption may have triggered the first mass extinction of life, in which nearly 80 per cent of the ...18 May, 2017, 08.37 PM IST
- Antibiotic-resistant microbes evolved prior to dinosaursNew York, May 12 (IANS) The earliest relatives of "superbugs" -- resistant to virtually all antibiotics -- known as the enterococci, had ev...12 May, 2017, 05.30 PM IST
- Rajasthan dinosaur footprints could tell us why the species disappearedGeologists have found footprints of Eubrontes Gleneronsensis Theropod dinosaurs in Jaisalmer district. These fossilized prints are 150 mill...13 Jun, 2016, 11.30 AM IST
- 'Planet X' caused mass extinctions on Earth?The yet undiscovered "Planet X" triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions at intervals of approximately 27 million years, researche...04 Apr, 2016, 04.32 PM IST
- Why the Planet X is making headlinesWell, a new hypothesis suggests that this potential extra planet could be responsible for mass extinctions on Earth.03 Apr, 2016, 05.19 AM IST
- Animals caused Earth's first mass extinction, not a catastropheEarth's first mass extinction 540 million years ago was caused not by a meteorite impact or volcanic super-eruption but by the rise of earl...03 Sep, 2015, 04.49 PM IST
- Scarface: Scientists discover new species of pre-mammal in ZambiaScientists have identified a new species of 'pre-mammal' in Zambia that may have been venomous and lived around 255 million years ago.16 Aug, 2015, 03.01 PM IST
- Mass extinctions may accelerate evolution: StudyIn computer simulations, they connected neural networks to simulated robotic legs with the goal of evolving a robot that could walk smoothl...13 Aug, 2015, 04.53 PM IST
- We're in the early stages of a mass extinction: StudyThe new study, published today in Science Advances, explains that we are suffering extremely elevated levels of species losses.22 Jun, 2015, 02.12 PM IST
- Eruptions 'can cause mass extinction'A new study has suggested that rapid, massive volcanic eruptions can change the climate enough to cause a mass extinction.06 Jun, 2009, 08.57 PM IST
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