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Ten extinct beasts that could walk the Earth again

THE recipe for making any creature is written in its DNA. So last November, when geneticists published the near-complete DNA sequence of the long-extinct woolly mammoth , there was much speculation about whether we could bring this behemoth back to life Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:58 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

Tags: Extinction, Jurassic Park, mannoth genome project

Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million

Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million. T he Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:57 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

Tags: Extinction, dna sequence, Jurassic Park

The Sky Is Falling - The odds that a potentially devastating space rock will hit Earth this century may be as high as one in 10. So why isn’t NASA trying harder to prevent catastrophe?

Breakthrough ideas have a way of seeming obvious in retrospect, and about a decade ago, a Columbia University geophysicist named Dallas Abbott had a breakthrough idea. She had been pondering the craters left by comets and asteroids that smashed into Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:08 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

Tags: Apocalypse, Existential risks, Existential risk, Extinction, Asteroids

Earth's orbit linked to extinctions

A tiny change to the Earth's orbit can affect the climate on Earth by altering the amount of sunlight received by different regions of the globe. Utrecht University researchers mapped out which species lived in which time periods. With this inform... Read more