It was always going to happen. And now it’s official: women outnumber men at American universities on a scale that’s never been seen before. Not just slightly, or by a considerable margin, but by record, unprecedented levels. By the end of the 2020-21 academic year, women constituted 60% of college …
Read More »Conflict diamonds may be virtually extinct in 2021, but your sparkler could still be a blood diamond financing rogue regimes
There’s a push towards lab-grown diamonds, 7 million carats were produced last year, but mined diamond production was still far greater at 111 million. The world’s biggest jeweller recently announced it would only sell lab-grown diamonds. Mass market brand Pandora switched for ethical reasons and also because the price is about …
Read More »Two flu strains may have gone ‘extinct’ due to Covid suppression measures, report claims
Flu cases have plummeted during the pandemic, an unprecedented development that some experts believe is due to mask mandates, social distancing and other measures originally designed to contain Covid-19. According to an article published by STAT, an outlet that specializes in health-oriented news, the absence of flu has become so …
Read More »Scientists discover ‘living fossil’ thought to have been extinct for 273mn years on ocean floor near Japan
The creatures in question are non-skeletal corals and crinoids, or sea lilies, who were found proliferating on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 100 meters (330 feet) below the surface, off the coasts of Honshu and Shikoku in Japan. They managed to survive undetected, having gone AWOL from the fossil …
Read More »Extinct woolly rhino found in excellent condition after being frozen in Far Eastern Russian permafrost for at least 20,000 years
The carcass appeared in Yakutia, a Far Eastern republic famous for its freezing temperatures. This December, the mercury has dropped as low as minus 40 degrees, meaning the region is completely iced up. According to Valery Plotnikov, a leading researcher in mammoths at the local Academy of Sciences, the woolly …
Read More »Seychelles “resurrected” extinct birds
“Alive” birds that became extinct thousands of years agoSeychelles “resurrected” after a few thousand years of extinct species of land birds kaviarov the rail (Dryolimnas cuvieri). The “resurrection” of extinct birds has occurred due to the phenomenon of iterative evolution, when from the same ancestor develops the same kind of …
Read More »Extinct animals that may be alive. Video
The video, which definitely will surprise you. However, according to another theory, the most ancient reptiles and prehistoric predators until recently lived together with people, and some several hundred years ago they were exterminated by man. What if they never died at all, and still have somewhere in the secret …
Read More »Extinct animals can be brought back to life. Photo
Candidates to return to the forests and seas of the planet takes a specially created Fund of the American Stewart Brand. Some of them have not seen for hundreds of years, others disappeared only decades ago. But now you will be able to face them face to face. Want to …
Read More »When the dinosaurs became extinct? Video
Scientists told of their own when the dinosaurs became extinct. According to official science, dinosaurs lived and died millions of years ago. However, according to research by some scientists, prehistoric dinosaurs weren’t prehistoric and lived side-by-side with people several hundred years ago.
Read More »The scientists said, which in fact the dinosaurs became extinct
Named the true causes. British scientists from Imperial College London have uncovered unexpected circumstances known theory of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Scientific work published in the pages of foreign publications Science Alert. According to the elementary theory of dinosaur extinction, the asteroid collapsed at an angle of ninety degrees …
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