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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed light on how interactions between predators and prey influenced the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wildlife Large number of freshwater animals could go extinct, new research reveals: ‘Many threats acting together’ By Associated Press Published Jan. 9, 2025, 4:57 p.m. ET ...