#Extinction event

Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama With all that’s happening on the earth, we already have enough to deal with but if we consider how interactions and phenomena that occur in space, then it might just dawn on us how inevitable the end of the world would be. The topic of mass extinction

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News A new gene drive may push a species of malaria-carrying mosquito to extinction. In a small-scale laboratory study, the genetic engineering tool caused Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes to stop producing offspring in eight to 12 generations, researchers

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News The extinction event that wiped out all nonbird dinosaurs about 66 million years ago also shook up shark evolution. Fossilized shark teeth show that the extinction marked a shift in the relative fates of two groups of sharks. Apex predators called

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News Nothing against trees. But maybe it’s better not to get too dependent on them if you want to survive a big flaming space object crashing into Earth. The asteroid impact that caused a mass extinction 66 million years probably also triggered the collapse