Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how many of these events ...

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.

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

Recent animals extinctions are a warning that we need to change the way we live as if we don't me may loose some of the ...

Scientists could bring back a bird synonymous with human impact on the planet. The dodo, a flightless bird native to ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact ...

Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we are not witnessing a mass ...

Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we are not witnessing a mass extinction just yet, according to a study ...

A spate of poisoning events this year has killed more than 400 vultures in and near South Africa’s Kruger National Park. In ...