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 ...

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

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

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.

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 ...

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 ...

Adapted from techniques initially developed for ancient DNA studies, such as those of extinct hominids, historical DNA analysis (hDNA) techniques are having a significant impact on species ...

The three animals are the first of its kind since the creature went extinct 12,500 years ago. “I could not be more proud of the team,” said Colossal CEO Ben Lamm in a press release.