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.

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.

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

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.

A radical idea to support the recovery of damaged ecosystems has been gathering steam: resurrect species that have gone extinct and reintroduce them to the wild. Proponents of “de-extinction ...

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.