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Before the Eagles lost control of Thursday night’s game against the Giants, it appeared that the biggest talking point emerging from the Week 6 opener would be the ongoing challenges presented by the tush push. The Eagles scored a touchdown after four straight uses of their trademark play, and with more evidence of linemen leaving early — and the officials …

Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’  EL PAÍS English Source link

Not an accolade anyone wants, but for the Xerces blue butterfly, its extinction is considered the first of any American insect species to have been directly caused by humans. Last seen in 1941, genetic testing proved that the Xerces blue butterfly was a distinct species, and its disappearance was the first human-led insect extinction. Back in 2021, scientists analyzed the DNA …

IN A NUTSHELL 🦎 The Edelman Fossil Park in New Jersey is a surprising hotspot for paleontological discoveries, yielding over 100,000 fossils. 🦖 Among the numerous species found, the mosasaur is a standout, offering insights into ancient marine life. 🌍 The site provides critical evidence about the mass extinction event caused by an asteroid impact millions of years ago. 🔍 …

The quest for dodo’s de-extinction has gathered steam again. Colossal Biosciences has announced a significant breakthrough in its attempts to bring the flightless bird back to life, 300 years after it became extinct. The Texas-based company has grown pigeon primordial cells for the first time; they are also regarded as precursor cells to sperm and eggs. Announcing this breakthrough on …

The Permian period, spanning from 299 to 252 million years ago, marked a crucial era in Earth’s history. The end of this period witnessed the most devastating mass extinction, known as the Great Dying, which wiped out nearly 70% of land-dwelling species and a much larger proportion of marine life. Recent findings in southern Africa have started to illuminate the …

Honey bees are essential pollinators, responsible for around 75% of flowering plants and 35% of food crops worldwide. Without them, global food systems and biodiversity would face serious threats. However, honey bee populations have been in decline due to poor nutrition, habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. In response, researchers from Washington State University (WSU) and APIX Biosciences in Belgium …

At the turn of the century, HIV was so rampant in Botswana that politicians and doctors viewed it as an existential threat. One in eight infants were reported to be infected at birth, while rates of mother to child transmission either through pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding ranged from between 20 and 40%, according to UNAIDS. Between 1990 and 2000, mortality …

An international team of researchers is looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, a giant prehistoric primate that once lived in what is now southern China. The species is known from its teeth and mandibles found in cave sites. The fossils suggest it was the largest primate ever, with estimates of its size ranging from about …

Daniel Rothman works on the top floor of the building that houses the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, a big concrete domino that overlooks the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rothman is a mathematician interested in the behaviour of complex systems, and in the Earth he has found a worthy subject. Specifically, Rothman …