Animals and plants are dying out at the fastest rate since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 65million years ago, scientists warn. A study found that more than 500 land-based vertebrate species are ...

A fire-bellied newt (Cynops ensicauda) photographed on Amami Island (Japan). A recent study suggested that the extinction of this and other genera was part of a mass extinction event that threatens ...

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

A sweeping analysis of marine fossils from most of the past half-billion years shows the usual rules of body size evolution change during mass extinctions and their recoveries. The discovery is an ...

An estimated 99% of all species ever living on planet Earth are now extinct. Extinction is part of life's history, and the extinction of single species happens all the time. Over time lost species are ...

The planet is on the precipice of the sixth mass extinction event. Unlike previous mass extinctions caused by natural events such as asteroid collisions, volcanic activity, and climate change, the ...

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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 ...

Nearly one-third of parrot species are threatened with extinction, and a new study concludes that current protected areas are not sufficient to protect parrot diversity, overlapping with only 10% of ...