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Extinction is an overwhelming concept, difficult to grasp in its enormity and finality. Thousands of species are barreling toward that grim fate, unless we help. A comprehensive new study provides the ...

According to the World Wildlife Fund, as much as 60% of the animal population of Earth has disappeared between 1970 and 2014. This shocking statistic is in no small part down to human interference, ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Erin Saupe receives funding from the Leverhulme Prize and NERC grant NE/V011405/1. Cooper Malanoski does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...