The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Figures in Extinction review – life, death and a heartfelt plea for Earth’s creatures, humans included

Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s three-act dance work on the state of the world turns the stage itself into a living thing, morphing between shades of sorrow, humour, fear and relief

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2025

Study reveals one good thing from dinosaur extinction that let primates emerge

Study explains how seeds and fruits eventually became large food sources

The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2025

Nature lovers urged to join hunt for rare miniscule moth in Scottish mountains

The Highland nymph, or Alpine coffee moth, is on the edge of extinction due to loss of mountain willow habitat, experts have said.

Evening Standard · Feb 17, 2025

A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’?

Fears grow for endangered species as the US president sets about dismantling basic laws to protect them to make way for oil and gas drilling

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2025

Britons urged to join hunt for rare daffodil breeds amid extinction fears

RHS is asking people to look for under-threat varieties such as the Sussex Bonfire and Mrs William Copeland

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2025

Kangaroo IVF breakthrough could save endangered koalas

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

AAP · Feb 6, 2025

Ancient duck-like creature discovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever discovered

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

LiveScience · Feb 5, 2025

‘The unknowable is not nothing’: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney on the mysteries of Figures in 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’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2025

More than $15bn a year to save threatened species

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

AAP · Feb 3, 2025

Tiny, endangered Chilean froglets born in London after dramatic 7,000-mile rescue

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

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2025