New research gives a glimpse of just how quickly that might happen, and it’s stark. By the middle of the century, the ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Welcome to what scientists call the Sixth Mass Extinction. Unlike previous mass extinctions caused by asteroids or volcanoes, ...

Sharks have had a tough time since the 1970s, when overfishing, habitat loss and a growing trade in their fins began to cut ...

Thousands of species at risk of extinction in Wales have been revealed in a new study. The "first of its kind in the UK" ...

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped ...

Indonesia’s deadliest floods in decades, triggered by extreme rainfall linked to Cyclone Senyar, have severely impacted the ...

New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze ...