Extinction is an overwhelming concept, difficult to grasp in its enormity and finality. Thousands of species are barreling ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

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

Rediscovery of world's smallest snake, Barbados threadsnake, sparks hope for wildlife protection on Caribbean island.

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out ...

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

From Ireland's last Great Auk to a fish thought to have been extinct for 70 million years — there's so much to discover in ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...

Researchers in South Africa have rediscovered a lost lizard, uncovered new localities of species and found that some are in ...

“However, the fact that 25% of the known species of this genus have become extinct in the last 50 years is alarming and suggests that even those species that could be classified as of least ...

New fossil studies reveal that ancient predators like saber-toothed cats vanished rapidly after their primary prey species ...

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 ...