The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Discrepancy between aesthetic value and extinction vulnerability could have repercussions

Australia’s new minister faces difficult challenges fixing laws, creating an EPA and curbing an extinction crisis

Turquoise parrots were fighting back from the brink of extinction when the Black Summer bushfires wiped out much of their nesting habitat. Small populations in the Snowy Mountains survived by populating unburnt sections of bushland and now the local community is doing everything it can to help them.

New study finds 44% of world’s land surface needs increased protection, with 1m wildlife species at risk of extinction

As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however, the Earth is losing animals, birds, reptiles and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering the sixth mass extinction in its history.

Ancient great white sharks could have driven their massive megalodon cousins into extinction by stealing their prey, a new study has revealed.

Rising seas choked the flora on the tiny mammals’ island habitat, and in just a few years they were gone

It had 276 teeth and grew longer than a bus. So why did the world's biggest shark die out about 4 million years ago?

The Blue Mountains of Jamaica are frequently covered in a dense blanket of cloud, but when it lifts the first thing you notice is the cloak of forest extending up their steep slopes to the top of the highest peaks. As you walk up through these trees you encounter an…

Climate change is driving ­puffin populations to a catastrophic low and they're threatened with extinction as extreme weather affects their food supplies

Foot-dragging over a toxic threat to dolphins might relate to NZ’s sacred cow of pets – cats