Saturday citations: A weird, extinct life form; cholesterol hacking; interspecies prosociality of whales

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...
Morning Overview on MSN

1,000+ new species discovered and many are already racing toward extinction

Scientists are cataloguing life on Earth at a pace that would have seemed impossible a generation ago, yet a growing share of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Sharklike Fish With Weird, Buzz-Saw Jaws Sliced Through the Seas, Then Vanished. Now, Paleontologists Are Unraveling Their Secrets

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...
Gizmodo

Biotech Startup Claims It’s Getting Closer to ‘Resurrecting’ the Extinct Dodo

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On ...