Once near extinction, these giant tortoises now outnumber people in the Seychelles, survey finds

Giant tortoises once pushed to the brink of extinction now outnumber humans in their home of the Seychelles, according to a ...
Earth.com

Bringing Neanderthals back from extinction could soon be possible with the help of AI, but scientists are sounding the alarm

Due to the accelerating pace of AI development, Neanderthal de-extinction may become technically possible within years.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

animal extinction

Why large numbers of reptile species face extinction and what that means for our ecosystem. Globally, about 20 percent of reptile species are facing the threat of extinction. That ...

Mark Cuban Asked Grok What Will Cause ‘Human Extinction’ in 25 Years — It Says Al Is 3,000x More Likely Than Climate Change

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban put an unusually grim question to Grok on Sept. 14 in a post on X. If humanity faces an ...

Voices: We asked AI whether it would lead to human extinction in a decade. Here’s what it said

The artificial intelligence tool set the probability of human extinction mercifully lower than the predictions of AI ...
Phys.org

Model shows extinction cascades caused by land use and climate change will wipe out more than 25% of world biodiversity

The loss of the prey species is a 'primary extinction' because it succumbed directly to a disturbance. But with nothing to eat, its predator will also go extinct (a 'co-extinction'). Or, imagine a ...

A Buried Oklahoma Crater Was Dated to the Wrong Era—and It Actually Lines Up With a Mass Extinction

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site ...

Is this how the world ends? Extinction scenarios are taking over the AI debate.

As nightmare thought experiments shape the fight over how to govern a multitrillion-dollar industry, some experts say the parables may lead decision-makers astray.