The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Dave Mustaine has announced the metal icons’ final album – here’s how they got here

New research has suggested the humble puddings could vanish from tables in the next 50 years

Bob Brown Foundation and Australia Institute accuse environment minister Murray Watt of condemning the Maugean skate to extinction

Not just boiled or steamed desserts in danger, charity finds, households also rarely make fruit pies and crumbles

One day in August, 1875, a greyish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the last time a Rodrigues parakeet was known to be seen alive.

The avocado survived a series of ecological and cultural close calls that could have easily relegated it to extinction

A new mega wind farm will "catapult some of Scotland’s most-loved seabird species towards extinction," according to RSPB Scotland

Earth’s biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent “sixth mass extinction” threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also threatens to reduce the amount of genetic diversity – or variation – within species.

Last fluent speaker of Caddo language, the indigenous language spoken by the Caddo Native American tribe from Oklahoma, has passed.

Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. Their lineage not only survived the mass extinction that ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, but also gave rise to the largest living lizards on Earth.

Australian scientists say assassin spiders are a ‘window into the past’ – and many invertebrates face a similarly precarious situation