A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

Invertebrates are creatures without a backbone — like insects, worms, snails, arachnids, freshwater crayfish and mussels — and make up 95 per cent of the animal world. Scientists say more than ...

Except this time, we have no one but ourselves to blame. According to a study published last week in Science Advances, the current extinction rate could be more than 100 times higher than normal ...

He adds, however, that while the finding about increased extinction risk is “interesting,” it should be treated with caution because of the “highly patchy” nature of the IUCN Red List data.

At this rate, the sixth extinction could result in a 50 percent loss of the remaining plant and animal life on Earth. This loss in biodiversity would be catastrophic.

Every year, mammals, birds, fish and insects make epic migrations between habitats. The humpback whale, famously, can travel 5,000 miles in a trip. But because these animals cross national borders and ...

Calculations in a September study published in the journal PNAS have suggested that groups of related animal species are disappearing at a rate 35% times higher than the normally expected rate.

At least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed Earth killing off the vast majority of species. As scientists say we’re in a sixth mass extinction, what can we learn from the past?

At least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed Earth killing off the vast majority of species. As scientists say we’re in a sixth mass extinction, what can we learn from the past?

This loss of biodiversity threatens every life on earth, not just those species which are close to extinction. Fish provide 20 per cent of animal protein to about 3 billion people.