While we can’t say exactly how many animal species have gone extinct in the past 125 years, it’s estimated that between 200 and 500 species have faced extinction in the past century. In the ...

We often mourn their loss too late, once they’re already gone, preserved only in books, museums, or memory. The following is a haunting reminder of that truth: ten animals that disappeared ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

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.

What we lose when animals go extinct. ... species are winking out. Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: ... which did in the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

US has imported billions of wild animals in the past 20 years. From 2000 to 2022, the US legally imported almost 30,000 different species of plants and animals, from songbirds to reptiles.

The species went extinct about 12,000 years ago. Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra for about 37,000 years ...

A high-tech company is confident that extinct beasts as far back as the ice age — like the woolly mammoth — can be resurrected by 2028, all thanks to a bankroll by Hollywood A-listers like ...

For the past 41 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has visited Ice Worm Glacier in Mount Daniel-Mount Hinman complex in Washington every year and seen its decline firsthand.

Yet in the past 12 years, at least 467 species have gone extinct, with most of these creatures — including a type of rodent called the melomy and a Hawaiian tree snail called Achatinella ...