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Researchers find domestication history of bananas that reveals mystery anc
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): People on the island of New Guinea are said to have cultivated bananas 7,000 years ago. However, the history of banana domestication is convoluted, and their categorization is widely discussed, as the borders between species and subspecies are sometimes amb
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Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered 'mega-earthquake': Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometre asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that it shook the planet for weeks to months after the collision. The
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Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo receives Nobel Prize in Medicine
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], October 3 (ANI): Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2022 was awarded to Svante Paabo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution, announced the award-giving organisation on Monday.
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Increase in malaria infection is linked to amphibian extinction: Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): A new study connects an amphibian extinction in Costa Rica and Panama to an increase in malaria infections. The study emphasises the significance of biodiversity to human health.
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NASA's DART mission to make first attempt at redirecting an asteroid
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 24 (ANI): While the vast majority of asteroids and comets are not dangerous, and never will be, it's also true that 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid impact on the Earth likely caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Our logistics should move at speed of cheetah: PM Modi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi released wild cheetahs - which had become extinct from India - in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, he drew a link between the speed of the animal and the pace at which India should improve its logistics.
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PM Modi releases wild cheetahs in MP's Kuno National Park
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sheopur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], September 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday released wild cheetahs, which had become extinct from India, in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park.
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India all set to welcome cheetahs after 7 long decades of extinction
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], September 17 (ANI): A special cargo Boeing 747 chartered flight carrying 8 cheetahs from Namibia landed at the Indian Air Force Station in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the cheetahs into Kuno National Park
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Discovery of extinct prehistoric reptile that lived among dinosaurs: Resea
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): Researchers have discovered a new extinct species of lizard-like reptile that belongs to the same ancient lineage as New Zealand's living tuatara. A team of scientists describe the new species Opisthiamimus gregori, which once inhabited Jurassic North Ame
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Study finds Earth's most devastating mass extinctions triggered by slowing
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth's history.
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Amit Shah says BJP is Kerala's future, Congress heading towards extinction
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], September 3 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday took a jibe at the Congress and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party would be the future of Kerala.
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Climate change leading to frequency of fish mass extinctions
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Arkansas [US], August 27 (ANI): The frequency of fish die-offs, or mass mortality events, has increased as the planet's climate has warmed. These die-offs can have serious consequences for ecosystem function, endanger existing fish populations, and reduce global food supply. And the frequenc
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