The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

The largest known primate, Gigantopithecus blacki, became extinct due to its inability to adapt to environmental changes.

Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct at least 215,000 years ago after climate change caused its forest home to vanish.

A study found that different butterflies use different methods to regulate their internal body temperature.

Despite the successful reintroduction of Przewalski’s horse, hunting, overgrazing and the climate crisis have pushed many of the country’s other species into crisis

Volcano-top orchid also named by scientists contending with extinctions caused by the human destruction of nature

Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths or mystical beasts. But if you go back though the human lineage you’ll find a very distant relative that stood three metres tall and weighed around 250 kilograms. This was Gigantopithecus blacki, the mightiest of all the primates and one of…

Climate change and scarce food sources contributed to the extinction of giant apes in China, as revealed by a new study. These 10-foot-tall, 650-pound apes...

A new study suggests an ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes

We tend to think of debt as purely financial, but we can also reap what we sow in the natural world through what is known as extinction debt. This concept refers to changes in the past that affect a species’ survival in the future.

Researchers say areas should be connected to allow populations to stabilize naturally.

Back from the brink of extinction, the Golden Globes returns this month to declare awards season open – but would Hollywood rather look the other way?