The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

The orchid’s increasing population in Britain is a bright spot in otherwise ‘stark picture’ for British wild plants, the latest Red List shows.

The fen orchid can now be found in seven locations in England and three in Wales

Language continues to evolve at an increasingly rapid pace in the present day. Social media platforms and texting services create new slang words that become popular within a short period of time. The short-lived nature of new words in language makes them disappear as quickly as they emerge, but certain…

For decades, wildlife conservation policy has aimed to protect endangered species until there are enough individual animals alive that the species won’t go extinct. Then the policymakers declare victory.

Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world

If there was ever a time to save them, it's now

Gene variants in red blood cell function may have doomed the hybrid babies of Neanderthals and modern humans.

The animals were hunted to extinction in Scotland around 400 years ago.

Researchers have warned that the findings should not be used as a ‘carte blanche’ for destructive human behaviour.

This finding offers a fresh perspective ver whether dinosaur numbers were already in decline

Dating of rock formation in New Mexico casts doubt on theory that species was already in decline