Insects are dying off at record rates — an ominous sign we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
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Hillary Kladke/GettyForty-one per cent of global insect species are at risk, a new study finds.
Hillary Kladke/GettyForty-one per cent of global insect species are at risk, a new study finds.
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Hillary Kladke/Getty Roughly 40% of the world's insect species are in decline, a new study shows.
Over 40 percent of insect species could become extinct in the next few decades, according to the "Worldwide decline of the…
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At the time Antarctanax lived, temperatures in Antarctica rarely dipped below freezing.
The Antarctica of 250 million years ago was a far cry from today's icy landscape.
Paleontologists have unearthed a new dinosaur relative in the rocks near the South Pole.They named itAntarctanax shackletoni…
caption The vertebrae and humerus of the “Antarctic King,” uncovered in the rocks of the Transantarctic Mountains.
Brandon Peecook/Field MuseumThe vertebrae and humerus of the ‘Antarctic King,’ uncovered in the rocks of the Transantarctic…
The vertebrae and humerus of the “Antarctic King,” uncovered in the rocks of the Transantarctic Mountains.
The Antarctica of 250 million years ago was a far cry from today's icy landscape.
Scientists uncovered a partial skeleton of Antarctanax shackletoni, the
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