Word: speciesism
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When a scientific principle is common knowledge even in grammar school, you know it has long since crossed the line from theory to established fact. That's the case with dinosaur extinction. Some 65 million years ago - as we've all come to know - an asteroid struck the earth, sending...
The controversial paper was written by geoscientists Gerta Keller of Princeton University and Thierry Addate of the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland. Both researchers knew that challenging the impact doctrine would not be easy. The asteroid charged with killing the dinosaurs, after all, left more than the Chicxulub crater as...
Within this brine, the research team discovered roughly a dozen species of prokaryotic microbes about the size of bacteria buried deep beneath the glacier.
“What’s truly amazing about this discovery is microbial continuity, how microbial communities can survive intense stresses and very dramatic cold stages. These microbes have been living in isolation for millions of years and yet they still bear great resemblance to modern marine species,?...
See pictures of the 10 species near extinction.