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Woolly mammoths were hit by climate change but humans wiped them out
The extinction of woolly mammoths was hastened by a warming climate that shrank and fragmented their habitat, and was then exacerbated by human hunting
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Greenland review: A great comet disaster movie on Amazon Prime
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Genetics leaves little doubt that humans wiped out passenger pigeons
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Almost all lemur species are now officially endangered
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Photographer documents the fight to save pangolins from extinction
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Earth
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit just right for maximum damage
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All five of Earth’s largest mass extinctions linked to global warming
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Life
Extinction lottery: how should we choose which species to save?
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Life
Europe鈥檚 cave bears may have died out because of their large sinuses
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Earth
Rock peeling off continents may have triggered biggest mass extinction
The Permian extinction, which wiped out almost all complex life, may have been caused by the undersides of continents slipping off into Earth鈥檚 interior
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Life
Dino-killing asteroid choked whole world in dust within a few hours
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The curious life and surprising death of the last dodo on Earth
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Life
Extinction is a fact of life. Could we stop it 鈥� or even reverse it?
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UK scientists join the Extinction Rebellion climate change protests
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