Tasmanian tigers, otherwise known as thylacines, have been extinct since 1936. The species—which looks like a strange mix of a dog, zebra, and a kangaroo—was hunted to extinction, largely because ...

Scientists around the world are warning that Earth may already be entering a sixth mass extinction event driven by climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, and collapsing ecosystems. As species ...

No matter how fast a species under threat can move, escape can only be successful if the new destination can meet its needs. An ecological modeling study from the University of California, Davis, ...

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Biodiversity loss is emerging as a systemic risk to the global economy and financial stability, a landmark report said on Monday, urging companies to act now or potentially ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there’s a hidden ...

Around 252 million years ago, the Earth experienced its largest mass extinction. Known as the “Great Dying,” this cataclysmic event wiped out more than 81% of marine species and 70% of life on land.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where ...

In April 2025, a biotech company made headlines when it announced that it had “brought back” the dire wolf. Colossal Biosciences is a self-professed de-extinction company whose stated goal is to ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

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Kenneth Lacovara, Ph.D., has spent years traveling the world looking for fossils and the extinction layer–a sediment layer covering the world that signifies the end of the Cretaceous period that ...