The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Just a few years from now, herds of woolly ‘mammoths’ could be roaming the Siberian tundra. Are dodos and dinosaurs next for de-extinction?

Minister will release five-yearly report which she says details ‘alarming story’ of native species extinction and cultural heritage loss

A "special moment" millions of years in the making could be a critical point in a rescue breeding program for the Guthega skink, which is barely hanging on in its alpine homelands.

‘There are only around 500 Kangaroo Island dunnarts left in the wild’

Pinna nobilis is vital to the Mediterranean ecosystem, but since 2016 numbers have plummeted by 99.9% – and saving it from extinction is no easy task

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 pushed a host of threatened species closer to extinction, including the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart. And as our research released today shows, feral cats posed a second lethal threat to the species in the weeks after the disaster.

A university study has found that feral cats are pushing the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart to the brink of extinction.

Former threatened species commissioner says more needs to be done if Australia is to save its unique flora and fauna.

This article was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight and appears here with permission.

A group of researchers photograph a woolly mammoth tusk on the banks of the Koyukuk River in Alaska.

Sea turtles have been swimming the world’s oceans and nesting on its beaches for over 120 million years. They even survived mass extinction events, including the one that saw the end of the large dinosaurs.