After the 1982-1983 El Niño warming event, the coral endemic to the Galápagos Islands experienced sharp population declines ...

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.

Cross-referencing climate data and fossils from around 15 million years ago shows that the decline in prey availability may have played a role in the extinction of these felines. Another study cites ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

For the last 10,000 years, thousands of species have perished from the Holocene extinction event, which is still ongoing.

Non-native species introduced by humans are among the main causes of global species decline -- they were partly responsible for 60 percent of the species that have become extinct worldwide in ...

Our best estimate is that 9,111 invertebrate species have become extinct in Australia since 1788. This dwarfs the current official estimate of the total number of extinctions across all plant and ...

Image credits: wikipedia Earth’s wildlife is in crisis. According to the WWF and Zoological Society of London’s Living Planet Report, global animal populations have plummeted by a staggering ...

In 2021, Köck’s project became the first-ever successful reintroduction in Mexico of a fish classified as extinct in the wild, and the GWG has since been involved in reintroductions of other ...

“The sheer number of bird species that have become extinct is of course a big part of the extinction crisis but what we also need to focus on is that every species has a job or function within ...

A new study estimates that more than 9000 insects and other native invertebrates have become extinct in Australia since European arrival in 1788 and between 1-3 additional species become extinct ...