The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Research shows species on the brink of extinction have successfully been saved. Applying the same approaches more broadly could help the planet.

A new study projects that at least one million extinctions are going to occur as a result of climate change

The southern and central greater glider, the world’s largest gliding marsupial, was officially listed as “endangered” this week, with the species facing a very high risk of extinction.

They're designed to protect the future of the world's most vulnerable animal species, but regional zoos are taking desperate measures to avoid extinction themselves.

Black and white ruffed lemurs are a critically-endangered species in the wild, meaning they are at an extremely high risk of extinction.

A long time ago, the carbon was rock, buried in the earth as securely as a secret. Then an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented scale began. The rocks burned, and the atoms inside them disassembled into carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Stemming global warming and species extinction requires a rethink of the global food system. The risk of pandemics could be the trigger for change.

New research suggests that dinosaurs may have survived the mass extinction that occurred during the Triassic and Jurrasic because they were already adapted to freezing conditions.

Sandfish are migratory freshwater fish found only in South Africa that can grow to over half a metre in length. They sport a pronounced downturned mouth which is used to graze algae off rocks and to grub in mud and sand on the stream bed.