Cloning technology may permit scientists to revive extinct species. The writers of Mother Jones contemplated which species they'd like to bring back from the dead. Maddie Oatman proposes the saber-toothed tiger:The saber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/18/12-Animals-to-Bring-Back-from-Extinction/Why did Neanderthals die out while other hominids survived? In an article published in the Journal of Human Evolution, John E. Fa and colleagues argue that it may be because Neanderthals were unable to adapt their huntin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/04/Bunnies-Blamed-for-the-Extinction-of-Neanderthals/Carl had loved Dana from afar for far too long. Finally, he worked up the courage to ask her out. Success! Now everything will be perfect, as this comic by Kristian Nygård predicts.Link -via Blame It on the Voices...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/02/Forever-Alone/There has been a great deal of speculation over th... ...never prove what asteroid may have triggered the extinction . One of the most likely candidates, the 9-mile-wi... ...ieved to have occurred 300,000 years prior to the extinction .Now, however, European and American scientists ha... ...almost simultaneou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/09/Scientists-Finally-Confirm-the-Asteroid-that-Killed-the-Dinosaurs/Biologists have been relocating healthy Tasmanian... ...thur Chapman) Previously: Tasmanian Devils Face Extinction
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/23/Tasmanian-Devils-Threatened-by-Contagious-Cancer/The golden toad is pretty gorgeous. Too bad you'll never see one in person. They went extinct in 1989: Scientists aren't totally sure what led to this Costa Rican toad's decline, but the best theory is that the El Nino...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/05/17-animals-that-died-during-our-lifetimes/The Great Auk once ranged over the entire Nort... ...fetching down. By 1844, humans had hunted it into extinction . This is Brian R. Williams's illustration of a st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/24/extinct-birds-in-the-fashions-of-the-year-of-their-demise/Beset by aging population and lo... ...he said. "The overall trend is towards extinction , which started in 1975 when Japan's f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/12/japan-could-become-extinct-in-1000-years/We don't know about Sasquatch, but we know a giant ape we call Gigantopithecus roamed South Asia until about 300,000 years ago. Gigantopithecus resembled a ten-foot-tall orangutan and weighed about three times as much as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/09/how-gigantopithecus-became-extinct/Given the low birth rates of some countries (I'm looking at you, Hong Kong* and Singapore), it's only a matter of time before they simply depopulate themselves out of existence. But how long do they h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/28/when-countries-go-extinct-thanks-to-low-birth-rates/