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The researchers also used climate simulations to investigate the decades and centuries immediately following the Chicxulub asteroid impact, which triggered the extinction of most dinosaurs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Jon Rosenfield, science director of the nonprofit group San Francisco Baykeeper, called it “an extinction plan.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

It found 12% of species here are under threat of extinction, and the number of flowering plants had declined by 14% since 1970.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

In the most-anticipated securities filing ever, Claude parent Anthropic laid out a potential path to huge profits and growth, but also to human extinction if its AI technology goes haywire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

In Europe, untold numbers of native species were crushed against the impassable barrier of the Alps and its smaller cousins and fell into extinction.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The discovery offers a possible explanation for how a group of animals that appeared around the same time as dinosaurs managed to endure two of Earth's five major mass extinctions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Many of the culprits then were the same as those still driving extinctions across the nation today.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

"Our findings show that, across different organism groups, extinctions happened at much higher rates for those more vulnerable to increases in water temperature and decreases in oxygen availability."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Kevin said it was much more likely for extinctions to happen in localised areas, something that has already happened.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

But the main thing to know is this: The whole time, from before any of those extinctions, from life’s origins until this minute, jellyfish have been there, pulsing their way across the oceans and back.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin