Researchers have reviewed the data of over 32,000 species and identified 562 of those species as “lost.” 75 of these 562 lost species are categorized…
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Researchers analyzed zinc isotopes in teeth and discovered that great white sharks make have contributed to the extinction of megalodon. Scientists investigated the diet of…
Detail from an illustration of Genyornis being chased from its nest by a Megalania lizard in prehistoric Australia. Credit: Illustration supplied by the artist Peter…
Potamites montanicola, classified as ‘Critically Endangered’ by automated the assessment method and as ‘Data Deficient’ by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Credit: Germán…
Southern yellow-billed hornbill at study site. Credit: Nicholas Pattinson The yellow-billed hornbill, cousins of fan-favorite Zazu from The Lion King, faces local extinction due to…
Princeton University researchers reported in a new study that unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, marine biodiversity may be on track to plummet to levels…
The African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana, survived the Quaternary extinction. Mammals with larger brains than similar-sized related species were more likely to have survived extinction during…
A graphical representation of the internal structure of Tasmanian tiger joeys. Credit: TIGGR Lab The University of Melbourne is establishing a world-class research lab for…
Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, mammoths 4,000 years ago, and the Christmas Island Rat 119 years ago. Since becoming a popular concept in…
Artistic reconstruction of the Seiche wave surging into the Tanis river, bringing in fishes and everything in its path (dinosaurs, trees) while impact spherules rain…
The asteroid that killed nearly all dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. An international team of scientists from the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Uppsala…
With only a few specimens in museum collections, Honshu wolf, or okami (Canis lupus hodophilax), is exposed to a process of gradual societal extinction and…
Shells of land snails from Rurutu (Austral Islands, French Polynesia) — recently extinct before they were collected and described scientifically. Credit: O. Gargominy, A. Sartori…
A new study has shed new light on why large mammals died out at the end of the ice age, suggesting their extinction was caused…
Screenshot from the OneZoom tree of life explorer with leaves colored according to extinction risk and showing the ‘spiral’ view of the tree. Credit: OneZoom…
Researchers used DNA capture-enrichment technology developed at McMaster to isolate and rebuild the fluctuating animal and plant communities during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Credit: Julius Csotonyi…
From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and…
A blunt-headed tree snake (Imantodes inornatus) eating its way through a batch of treefrog eggs. Credit: John David Curlis, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.…
Woolly mammoths persisted in Siberia until the mid-Holocene. Credit: Mauricio Anton New research shows that humans had a significant role in the extinction of woolly…
An artist’s rendering of the conditions during the End-Permian Mass Extinction, which wiped out nearly all life on earth. (Illustration by Victor Leshyk ‘The end-Permian…