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At Smithsonian Magazine: Why birds survived but not dinosaurs
Was the dinosaur destruction fine-tuned?
Coffee!! Early Australia featured some weird monsters
Dino death: Asteroid impact more likely than volcanoes, new study says
Blue bee returns from extinction
“Crazy beast” from 66 million years ago finally identified
At Nature: Evolutionary trees can’t reveal speciation and extinction rates
Dinosaur debate suddenly goes extinct?
Is the planet really running out of frogs?
That seems to depend on who you read: Last year in the journal Science, a research review concluded that the chytrid fungus caused the decline of at least 501 amphibian species, of which 90 have gone extinct. That paper suggested that species losses due to the chytrid fungus are “orders of magnitude greater than for other high-profile wildlife pathogens.” But a recent reanalysis led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers found that the paper’s main conclusions lack evidence and are unreproducible. In a Comment published online March 19th in Science, the group conducting the reanalysis — including lead authors Max Lambert and Molly Womack, who are postdocs in the lab of professor Erica Rosenblum in the Department of Environmental Science, Read More ›