New research shows that while many species have disappeared, extinctions of genera are very rare across plants and animals.

The planet is seeing a decline in biodiversity, but extinctions are relatively rare and don’t meet the threshold for a sixth ...

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

And while every mass extinction has winners and losers ... A single genus groups one or more different but related species — for example the genus Canis includes wolves, dogs, coyotes and jackals. The ...

The rapidity of animal species extinction is a grave concern, currently occurring at a rate 35 times faster than anticipated.

(CN) — For the past few decades scientists and biodiversity experts have sounded the alarm on what has been called the “the ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, new fossils hint. Scientists have identified a refuge in China where it ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

(CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the ...

Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we ...

CNN — The sixth mass extinction is not a worry for the future. It's happening now, much faster than previously expected, and it's entirely our fault, according to a study published Monday. Humans have ...

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass ...