While only around 2% of the world's bird species have gone extinct since 1500, the year Kittelberger's analysis begins, even more had already disappeared by then. Before 1500, however, there is ...

The new study showed that, since the year 1500, extinctions have multiplied by 28. Other studies, however, indicated ...

Extrapolating further, that would suggest that between 7.5 and 13 percent of all 2 million known species on Earth have gone extinct since around 1500, the date from which the IUCN records extinctions.

Since 1500, some 89 freshwater species have reportedly become extinct, with another 178 suspected of meeting the same fate. These figures are likely to be an underestimate, the authors wrote ...

Biologists have identified common features in species that have vanished since 1500, finding that large body size and specialised niches made birds vulnerable to extinction.

Since 1500, at least 89 freshwater species have been confirmed extinct, with another 178 suspected of disappearing. Since 1970, 35 percent of wetlands have been lost, a rate three times faster ...

Since the 1750s, at least 571 species of plants have gone extinct in the wild, according to a global survey recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. More than eight plant species have ...

The proportion of 216 bird species globally extinct or likely lost since 1500 that were endemic to a region, found solely on islands, and were either flightless or partially flightless ...

While over-harvesting has caused most freshwater animal extinctions since 1500, the report identifies agriculture and pollution, mainly from farming practices, as main threats today. About 54 per ...