The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — At a high alpine lake here, researchers with clipboards and pens are conducting painstaking surveys that may be essential for saving butterflies and other insects from extinction.

White-nose syndrome is killing off many bat colonies across North America. The same disease is decimating the northern long-eared bat population, which is also on the brink of extinction.

U.S. officials are proposing to list the tricolored bat as endangered

Sharks are some of the most ecologically important and most threatened animals on Earth. Recent reports show that up to one-third of all known species of sharks and their relatives, rays, are threatened with extinction. Unsustainable overfishing is the biggest threat by far.

A rare “orchid of the falls” plant has been declared extinct after a hydroelectric dam destroyed its only habitat

Efforts to halt the decline of Australia's threatened species are failing dismally, a new report card warns on National Threatened Species Day.

There are believed to be fewer than 1,500 golden-shouldered parrots left in a small parcel of Cape York in far north Queensland — the only place they are found in the world.

XR activists booked on an official tour of the building on Friday and superglued themselves in a chain around the Speaker’s chair.

A single, pregnant rodent floating on driftwood across the treacherous waters between Asia and New Guinea 8.5 million years ago may be behind the eventual colonisation of native rodents in Australia, our new research suggests.

Climate change activists padlock themselves to gates outside parliament, saying ‘we cannot afford to go on like this’.

CLIMATE change activists have superglued themselves around the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons.