The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage

AI Mode is mangling recipes by merging instructions from multiple creators – and causing them huge dips in ad traffic

Polar bears face “total extinction” by the end of this century, but scientists have found a small beacon of “hope”.

Conservationists fear up to 11% of Tapanuli orangutan population perished in disaster that also killed 1,000 people

Local rangers say they are struggling to find the primates in an area where sightings were common prior to the disaster

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be extinct by 2050 with total extinction predicted by the end of this century.

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species nicknamed the "hobbit," a new study finds.

Experts worry cheetahs may one day be on the brink of extinction and need artificial reproduction to save them.

Rewilding charity helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK

American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, hoping conservationists never have to use them

In the tropical dry forests of northern Colombia, a small team is gradually restoring the degraded habitat of the rare cotton-top tamarin