Some of these incredible creatures have already taken their final bow. So today, we’ve rounded up a list of animals that have sadly gone extinct: some in recent years, others within our lifetime.

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from ...

Over the billions of years that this planet has been in existence many species have come and gone. Some animals have suffered due to a change in climate or natural disasters and there's no getting ...

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

A recent study highlights that climate change and habitat destruction endanger global bird diversity, potentially leading to ...

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

The species last roamed the Earth 10,000 years ago. Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.

Neanderthals went extinct Our species, Homo sapiens, has been around for at least 200,000 years. That's a long time, but like all animals on Earth we are at risk of becoming extinct.

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.

Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild ...