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Bird flu threatens hundreds of animal species

The world's wild animal species are currently facing a new, deadly threat. The bird flu H5N1 has taken the lives of millions of birds and mammals in recent months, and experts believe that the disease poses an existential threat to the biological diversity on Earth.

After 200 Years of Controversy: How Humans Wiped Out the Giant Animals

Not so very long ago, at the end of the last ice age, the earth was full of large animals – mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths and giant rodents. Then they suddenly disappeared completely. Now researchers are establishing that they were wiped out by humans.

Extinct bee rediscovered: "Got an increased pulse"