Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

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The tusk may have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, an Ice Age species that disappeared over 11,000 years ago. Black hole singularities might be the beginning rather than an end, new research suggests.