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How extinction of giant ice age beasts could still affect food chains

Loss of species including mammoths, saber-tooth cats and direwolves has had long-lasting impacts and could tell us how biodiversity loss today could shape the natural world…

TIL that 2.4 billion years ago, the evolution of oxygen-producing bacteria caused a mass extinction. Oxygen was toxic to the planet's existing life, and its reaction with methane triggered a "Snowball Earth" ice age that lasted 300 million years.

Billionaire Ambani’s Son Wants To Save Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ From Extinction In Colombia

Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar brought hippopotamuses to his estate in Colombia as part of a private zoo. When he died, they roamed wild.…

Possums and gliders are pushing a native Australian bird to extinction. What can we do?

Orangutan seen using human-made bridge for the first time

An orangutan was seen using a canopy bridge to cross a public road in Indonesia for the first time, according to the Sumatran Orangutan Society. The bridge was built two years ago to help orangutans c…

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused …