The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

I'm still going to hunt the freak to extinction

Protesters have staged a demonstration outside a Scottish airport over a private jet company owned by Scotland’s largest landowner.

Australian scientists pioneering marsupial IVF breeding techniques say it could pave the way for other marsupial species to be saved from extinction.

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

Death looms large in the pair’s dance trilogy but, as Complicité’s artistic director says, confronting it is ‘integral to and essential for life’

Climate change and other threats have 16 species headed for extinction no matter how much money is spent, new research shows.

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 tiny endangered froglets after they travelled from the Chile

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction erodes genetic diversity, because a species’ gene pool shrinks as the population declines. Losing genetic diversity limits the ability of…

Protesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent