Extinction

To save one endangered owl species, scientists back waging war on another

Scientists and conservationists are trying to save the northern spotted owl from being pushed out of its habitat and into extinction with shotguns trained on barred owls.

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
A Northern Spotted Owl sits on a tree stump in Stanley Park on August 4, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.
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New scans challenge the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted giant animals to extinction

A study in Royal Society Open Science by Professor Mike Archer shows no evidence that humans hunted or butchered megafauna in the fossil record.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Egg clutch sampled for the study.

Unveiling the Age of Dinosaur Eggs: A Groundbreaking Study

Chinese researchers directly date dinosaur eggs using new carbonate uranium-lead method

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
With Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi Colossal Biosciences revives the dire wolves.

With Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi Colossal Biosciences revives the dire wolves

Using these fossils, scientists reconstructed the complete genome of the extinct species as part of Colossal's de-extinction process.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Study shows sea urchins existed far longer than originally thought

Seabed animals appeared 50 million years earlier than previously thought — a finding that can change the way we understand the evolution of many species.

MAY 1, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Echinometra.

'Lost' continent may have been land bridge from Asia to Europe

A “Lost” continent, which researchers have named Balkanatolia, may have been a land bridge into Europe for Asian mammals 38 million years ago.

MARCH 1, 2022ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY
Fossil Site.