extinction Archive
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Fifth of the world’s plants face extinction
Posted on May 17, 2016 | No CommentsMore than a fifth of all known plant species on earth are under serious threat from extinction, according to the latest State of the World’s […] -
Dog-Eat-Dog World: The Earliest Lifeforms May Have Been Eaten to Extinction
Posted on May 4, 2015 | No Comments542 million years ago, nearly all modern animal phyla burst on the scene in an explosive radiation that has come to be known as the […] -
Acid Attack: the Marine Meltdown
Posted on April 18, 2015 | No CommentsCoral Collapse: Could our world’s most wondrous marine environments be about to melt away? We have all heard about the dangers […] -
The Purpose of Life
Posted on November 16, 2014 | No CommentsA Green Earth: Life seeks to survive, by whatever means it can (picture credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre) Does evolution have a purpose? To […] -
Our Friend, Our Foe, Our Lover
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsThe story of our relationship with the Neanderthal is, to say the least, complicated. Recently, this distant cousin of humankind has figured in the media […]