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Mitigating risk of extinction from AI should be global priority: AI indust
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," read the statement published by the Center for AI Safety.
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New study reveals biodiversity loss drove ecological collapse after the 'G
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The history of life on Earth has been punctuated by several mass extinctions, the greatest of these being the Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the 'Great Dying', which occurred 252 million years ago.
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Mercury helps to detail Earth's most massive extinction event: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Latest Permian Mass Extinction (LPME) was the largest extinction in Earth's history to date, killing between 80-90 per cent of life on the planet, though finding definitive evidence for what caused the dramatic changes in climate has eluded experts.
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Climate change played key role in dinosaur success story
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Climate change, rather than competition, played a key role in the ascendancy of dinosaurs through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.
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Researchers discover oldest Pterodactylus fossil in Germany
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles of the dinosaur era, originated in the Late Triassic (227 million years ago) and became extinct at the end-Cretaceous extinction event (66 million years ago). With wing spans ranging from 1 to 12 meters, they dominated the world's skies for more than 160 milli
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Study shows Earth's first known mass extinction event 550 million years ag
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism. Stromatolites, layered organo-sedimen
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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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An epitome of affairs; Lalluram emerges as a maestro
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI/ATK): While the pandemic severely impacted the world, awareness is being battled at all fronts. As, the mob reckoned online services, a scour of publication houses came into existence establishing their stricture amidst the extinction event.
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J-K: Field workshop on repository of Permian Triassic mass extinction even
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], October 23 (ANI): A field workshop was organised on Saturday on the repository of the Permian Triassic mass extinction event to adopt the 252 million-year-old Guryul Ravine fossil site in Khanmoh area of Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar.
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Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 20 (ANI): Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event, researchers said, and finding certain radioactive isotopes in Earth's rock record could confirm this scenario.
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Study reveals details of another mass-extinction held 260 million years ag
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 15 (ANI): Researchers have recently learned about a new catastrophic mass-extinction event that happened around 260 million years ago.
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Largest extinction event on Earth most likely killed plants first
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 4 (ANI): A new research led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says that plants may have suffered the wrath of Great Dying long before their animal counterparts.
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