Quick Take Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died, underscoring extinction and the emotional toll on caretakers.

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that bred in ...

To consider how climate change could cause some extinctions, imagine a tiny mountain bird that eats the berries of a particular mountain tree. That tree can only grow at a specific elevation around ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Birds are vanishing at an alarming rate. Since the Late Pleistocene, thousands of species have disappeared forever. Estimates ...

A University of Cambridge research team analyzed data to uncover the effectiveness of conservation efforts — and the results were positive, but more needs to be done. According to the Red List, more ...

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A new study projects biodiversity threats if global warming speeds up. Under the most extreme scenarios, about one in three species could be... How many species could go extinct from climate change?