Titanosaurs are the biggest animals that have gone extinct on land. These massive dinosaurs were huge and Dreadnoughtus is ...

14 ocean animals have gone extinct in the last 100 years, and 72 are on the verge of extinction. An international deal was reached Saturday to protect marine wildlife, after decades of talk.

The natural world is a rich tapestry of life, brimming with fascinating species, each contributing to the ecological balance ...

While extinctions occur naturally — more than 99% of all species to ever exist have already gone extinct — human activity can dramatically speed up the rate of species extinction — an idea ...

Species have gone extinct at a much higher rate than is expected with evolution, and the blame has largely been placed on humans and their detrimental impact on certain species' environments.

There are species that have gone and will go extinct because of this. Climate change also has diminished another winter freeze benefit, Lorimer said: The reduction of pest eggs, which instead may ...

No, fireflies/lightning bugs aren't going extinct, but their populations are declining, specifically in highly ...

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

Applying 100 E/MSY to Cowie's 2022 method suggests 100,000 of the roughly 2 million known species have gone extinct over the past 500 years. However, that doesn't account for unknown animal species.

Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as the Christmas Island pipistrelle and a rat, the Bramble Cay melomys.

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.

The most famous Lazarus taxon on this list was thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago. It's the coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish of the type that gave rise to the first tetrapods.