Advocates said the big cats are running out of time. "These populations are facing an extinction vortex," Tiffany Yap of the ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pugapia and her daughters, Aiga and Babawru, lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts ...

Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025. Habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, and hunting are the primary drivers ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 445 million years ago, our planet completely changed ...

Earth’s history is punctuated by devastating mass extinction events that have wiped out the majority of species living at the time. These catastrophic episodes have reset the evolutionary clock ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

It’s rare to get some good news when it comes to conservation. However, a new study has suggested that extinction rates are actually declining rather than speeding up. Here we will examine how the ...

The "extinction burst" theory is spreading on left-wing TikTok as an explanation for the increase in violent rhetoric and acts from the right. In psychology, this term describes the temporary rise in ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...

Considering the influence of quarantine and vaccination factors, this study examines an SEIQRV infectious disease model that incorporates an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and a general incidence function ...