New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

The cost of preventing extinction of Australia's priority species. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 13, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250203182228.htm ...

The Cost of Preventing Extinction of Australia's Priority Species Feb. 3, 2025 — A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of ...

Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California Human activities are the most prominent cause of species extinction today, but not the only one.

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a […] ...

New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction, with 24% of species in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of fish, crab and ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Extinctions sometimes strangely entwine – like the ancient Maugean skate ray, of which it is estimated fewer than 120 remain and ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century. In 1960, numbers were estimated at around 5,000 animals. Today ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

The number of Australian animals, plants and unique ecological communities officially recognised as being in danger of extinction rose to 2,142 last year. Australia has one of the world's highest ...