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Two wild elephants, part of a herd that arrived at a wetland near the Thakurkuchi railway station, engage in a tussle on the outskirts of Gauhati, Assam, India, on June 7, 2017. (AP / Anupam Nath)
May 6, 2019, 4:12 pm
UN says nature is in worst shape in human history
Thousand-page report approved by 109 nations concludes over 1 million species of plants and animals facing extinction
By Seth Borenstein
Dr. Evgeny Reznitsky, educational director of the Natural History Museum in Jerusalem, standing next to a dinosaur statue in the museum's outer garden on May 1, 2018. (Michael Bachner/Times of Israel)
May 2, 2018, 6:59 am
Despite outrage, Jerusalem museum vows to keep censoring evolution exhibit
Natural History Museum justifies covering up displays during visits by ultra-Orthodox groups, as many in Israel and abroad slam institution as betraying science
By Michael Bachner
Hesham Sallam, head of Mansoura university's Center for Vertebrate Paleontology, displays bones of a Cretaceous period dinosaur in Mansoura, Egypt, February 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
February 6, 2018, 4:58 pm
Rare dinosaur discovered in Egypt, could signal more finds
Paleontologists say skeleton of bus-sized plant-eater Mansourasaurus could be the tip of the sand dune for other desert discoveries
By MAGGIE HYDE
An artist's reconstruction of the newly discovered dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae on a coastline in what is now the Western Desert of Egypt. (Andrew McAfee/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
January 30, 2018, 2:00 am
Scientists discover huge Egyptian dinosaur with ties to Europe
Skeleton of elephant-sized plant-eater Mansourasaurus is the most complete from the late Cretaceous period ever found in Africa
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Dinosaur footprint in Australia. (Wikimedia Commons)
December 20, 2017, 5:25 am
Vandals take hammer to ancient Australia dinosaur footprint
Officials slam ‘sad and callous’ damage to 115 million-year-old impression at Flat Rocks in Victoria
By AFP
Illustrative: A cosplayer dressed as a dinosaur attends the MCM Comic Con at ExCeL exhibition centre in London on October 28, 2017. (AFP/Tolga AKMEN)
November 6, 2017, 8:51 pm
Israeli study: Mammals gave up night life only after dinosaurs’ demise
Tel Aviv University researchers posit many mammals maintain nocturnal features due to previous need to compete with dinosaurs
By Mariëtte Le Roux
This photo taken on June 23, 2015, shows a replica of a skeleton of a Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a bizarre genus of herbivorous dinosaur, exhibited at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AFP Photo/Eitan Abramovich)
August 16, 2017, 5:53 pm
New find shakes up theory on dinosaur evolution
Researchers say Chilesaurus, the ‘most bizarre dinosaur ever found,’ is a missing link pointing at a common ancestor for theropods and ornithischians
By Marlowe HOOD
Feathers of a 99 million year-old bird-like dinosaur encased in amber and discovered in northern Myanmar. (YouTube screenshot)
December 8, 2016, 11:35 pm
Feathered dinosaur tail in 99-million-year-old amber
Unique find, unearthed in a market in Myanmar, provides extraordinary insight into detail, pigments, of sparrow-sized creature
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of a dinosaur skeleton. ('Light the dinosaur'/Ruben/CC BY 2.0)
July 7, 2016, 3:25 am
Climate change, asteroid impact killed off dinosaurs
Study argues that immense volcanic eruptions led to greenhouse warming, weakening ecosystems until they could not survive strike
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Prof. Paul Ehrlich (YouTube screenshot)
June 20, 2015, 7:17 pm
Humanity may be facing extinction, US scientists warn
World’s 6th mass extinction has already begun, claims team including Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, and humankind could be among the early victims
By AFP and TOI staff
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