Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species – according to estimates , roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 – twice the ...

“It’s not too late to stop more plants and animals from going extinct, but we have to act fast,” said Greenwald. Bachman’s warbler: Bachman’s warbler was a small yellow and black songbird that once ...

Since the 1750s, at least 571 species of plants have gone extinct in the wild, according to a global survey recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. More than eight plant species have ...

Should we bring extinct species back to life? Sometimes whole species of animals or plants become extinct due to the changes in their habitat, predators or disease. But over the last 500 years ...