Extinction

Searching for hope in an age of extinction

Conservation scientists understand that very rarely extinction is not always the final chapter

|ByRONNIE ROSENMAN, IN COLLABORATION WITH BGU
Prof. Uri Roll: "The love of nature was already there."
A Northern Spotted Owl sits on a tree stump in Stanley Park on August 4, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.

To save one endangered owl species, scientists back waging war on another

Scientists and conservationists are trying to save the northern spotted owl from being pushed out of its habitat and into extinction with shotguns trained on barred owls.

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
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New scans challenge the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted giant animals to extinction

A study in Royal Society Open Science by Professor Mike Archer shows no evidence that humans hunted or butchered megafauna in the fossil record.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Egg clutch sampled for the study.

Unveiling the Age of Dinosaur Eggs: A Groundbreaking Study

Chinese researchers directly date dinosaur eggs using new carbonate uranium-lead method

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Over 21% of reptiles are at risk of extinction - study

Although reptiles benefit from generalized conservation efforts, targeted measures are urgently needed to protect some of the most threatened species

MAY 4, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A volunteer holds a Sand Lizard prior to its release into the wild in sand dunes near Talacre, north Wales September 10, 2013. The lizard, one of Britain's rarest species of reptile is being released along with 400 others at seven sites across England and Wales this week as part of a long term conse

Study shows sea urchins existed far longer than originally thought

Seabed animals appeared 50 million years earlier than previously thought — a finding that can change the way we understand the evolution of many species.

MAY 1, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Echinometra.

'Lost' continent may have been land bridge from Asia to Europe

A “Lost” continent, which researchers have named Balkanatolia, may have been a land bridge into Europe for Asian mammals 38 million years ago.

MARCH 1, 2022ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY
Fossil Site.