The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

1994 agreement allows investors to sue governments for changes in energy policy that harm their profits

Study of tiny parasites points to gene loss from adaptation putting them on dead-end evolutionary course

The eight-legged creatures have lived within most people's pores since birth.

The race is on to save the critically-endangered bat which weighs no more than a 50-cent piece. Here's how researchers hope to boost their numbers.

Just a few years from now, herds of woolly ‘mammoths’ could be roaming the Siberian tundra. Are dodos and dinosaurs next for de-extinction?

Minister will release five-yearly report which she says details ‘alarming story’ of native species extinction and cultural heritage loss

A "special moment" millions of years in the making could be a critical point in a rescue breeding program for the Guthega skink, which is barely hanging on in its alpine homelands.

‘There are only around 500 Kangaroo Island dunnarts left in the wild’

Pinna nobilis is vital to the Mediterranean ecosystem, but since 2016 numbers have plummeted by 99.9% – and saving it from extinction is no easy task

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 pushed a host of threatened species closer to extinction, including the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart. And as our research released today shows, feral cats posed a second lethal threat to the species in the weeks after the disaster.

A university study has found that feral cats are pushing the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart to the brink of extinction.