Hacker News with Generative AI: Extinction

An Age of Extinction Is Coming (nytimes.com)
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence — threatens an especially comprehensive cull. It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” — a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction.

Technology, Society, Artificial Intelligence, Extinction, Cultural Change

9 points by tigerlily 2 days ago | 1 comments

Bird Went Extinct and Then Evolved into Existence Again (vice.com)
The Aldabra white-throated rail, a flightless bird that lives on its namesake atoll in the Indian Ocean, doesn’t look like anything special at first glance. But the small bird has big bragging rights, because it has effectively evolved into existence twice after first going extinct some 136,000 years ago.

Evolution, Biology, Extinction, Birds

10 points by MrBuddyCasino 4 days ago | 3 comments

An Age of Extinction Is Coming (nytimes.com)
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete.

Technology, Society, Future, Extinction

8 points by martialg 5 days ago | 1 comments

Come with Me If You Want to Survive an Age of Extinction (nytimes.com)
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence — threatens an especially comprehensive cull. It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” — a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction.

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Culture, Extinction, Society

9 points by chucksmash 7 days ago | 2 comments

The dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction (newscientist.com)
A company called Colossal Biosciences says it has revived an extinct species – the dire wolf. “On October 1, 2024, for the first time in human history, Colossal successfully restored a once-eradicated species through the science of de-extinction. After a 10,000+ year absence, our team is proud to return the dire wolf to its rightful place in the ecosystem.” That’s the claim made on the website of the US-based company. Here’s what we know.

Extinction, De-extinction, Genetics, Biology, Science

10 points by randlet 18 days ago | 1 comments

Experts dispute claims dire wolf brought back from extinction (bbc.com)
There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today - accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf.

Science, Extinction, Animals, Genetics

5 points by willvarfar 18 days ago | 0 comments

The Dire Wolf Is Back (newyorker.com)
Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 per cent have vanished.

Extinction, Nature, Paleontology, Animals

189 points by adrianhon 19 days ago | 192 comments

Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation (arstechnica.com)
The start-up Colossal Biosciences aims to use gene-editing technology to bring back the woolly mammoth and other extinct species.

Conservation, Genetics, Extinction, Bioengineering

34 points by rntn 21 days ago | 54 comments

Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction (smithsonianmag.com)
One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full

Coffee, Botany, Climate Change, Extinction, Agriculture

170 points by derbOac 24 days ago | 138 comments

"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth.

Genetics, Extinction, Animals, Science

5 points by rbanffy 52 days ago | 0 comments

"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth.

Genetics, Biology, Conservation, Extinction

70 points by LorenDB 52 days ago | 62 comments

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice (theguardian.com)
A plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse.

Science, Genetics, Extinction, Animals, Biology

18 points by n1b0m 53 days ago | 2 comments

Chlamydia could make koalas extinct. Can a vaccine save them in time? (bbc.com)
This hospital is ground zero of a grim chlamydia epidemic which is killing thousands of koalas and making even more sterile, pushing the national icons to the brink of extinction.

Wildlife, Conservation, Health, Australia, Extinction

6 points by peutetre 116 days ago | 0 comments

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas (phys.org)
For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons, saber-toothed cats and dire wolves that once roamed North and South America.

Paleontology, Archaeology, Extinction, History, North America

75 points by wglb 124 days ago | 22 comments

Mummy of juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from Upper Pleistocene (nature.com)
The frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia.

Paleontology, Pleistocene, Siberia, Extinction, Ancient Animals

55 points by bryanrasmussen 153 days ago | 23 comments

'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns (bbc.com)
“We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,” Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. “The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing forests, the better.”

Conservation, Extinction, Environment, Science

8 points by Brajeshwar 159 days ago | 1 comments

'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns (bbc.com)
“We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,” Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. “The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing forests, the better.”

Conservation, Extinction, Climate Change, Environment

3 points by austinallegro 159 days ago | 1 comments

28.000 Year Old Immaculate Saber-Tooth Cat Cub Found in Siberian Permafrost (gizmodo.com)
Discovered several years ago, this remarkably preserved saber-tooth cub is offering a rare glimpse into its species and life as it existed over 30,000 years ago.

Paleontology, Siberia, Archaeology, Pleistocene Era, Extinction

7 points by hochmartinez 161 days ago | 0 comments

Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them? (vox.com)
Starting this week, thousands of people will descend on the Colombian city of Cali for an important meeting you may have never heard of: COP16.

Conservation, Extinction, Environmental Policy, Colombia, International Meetings

93 points by rntn 187 days ago | 72 comments

How did birds survive while dinosaurs went extinct? (yahoo.com)
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Paleontology, Evolution, Extinction, Birds, Dinosaurs

28 points by isaacfrond 208 days ago | 8 comments

Polynesian Dog (wikipedia.org)
The Polynesian Dog refers to a few extinct varieties of domesticated dogs from the islands of Polynesia.

Polynesia, Dogs, Extinction, History, Animals

5 points by thunderbong 208 days ago | 0 comments

Where Did the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Come From? (nautil.us)
The story of the doom-bringing rock may help us prevent a repeat catastrophe.

Space, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Science, History

21 points by jnord 214 days ago | 15 comments

Neanderthals' social isolation may have sped up their extinction (popsci.com)
Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that likely did not have a lot of interaction with others from its species.

Neanderthals, Extinction, Genetics, Paleontology, Social Behavior

25 points by geox 227 days ago | 14 comments

Endling (wikipedia.org)

Endling, Video Games, Animals, Extinction

19 points by geox 243 days ago | 0 comments

Bananas almost went extinct 70 years ago – Now a deadly fungus is trying again (studyfinds.org)

Bananas, Extinction, Fungus, Agriculture, Science

23 points by Brajeshwar 244 days ago | 11 comments

Scientists believe they now know where the dinosaur-killing asteroid came from (cbc.ca)

Space, Science, Paleontology, Asteroids, Extinction

7 points by worldvoyageur 253 days ago | 1 comments

Conservation-induced extinction (wikipedia.org)

Conservation, Extinction, Environmental Science, Biology

13 points by thunderbong 273 days ago | 2 comments

The evidence is mounting:Humans were responsible for extinction of large mammals (phys.org)

Extinction, Paleontology, Science, Climate Change

22 points by NoRagrets 275 days ago | 1 comments

A slow pace of life predisposes insular endotherms to anthropogenic extinctions (science.org)