The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined a protest in England against private jets and airport expansion. Private jets contribute to higher emissions compare...

Greta Thunberg joined local residents, members of Extinction Rebellion and climate change campaigners on Saturday in a march to Farnborough Airport.

Scientists fighting to save Tasmania's ancient Maugean skate from extinction say some have died in a captive breeding program.

The largest known primate, Gigantopithecus blacki, became extinct due to its inability to adapt to environmental changes.

Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct at least 215,000 years ago after climate change caused its forest home to vanish.

A study found that different butterflies use different methods to regulate their internal body temperature.

Despite the successful reintroduction of Przewalski’s horse, hunting, overgrazing and the climate crisis have pushed many of the country’s other species into crisis

Volcano-top orchid also named by scientists contending with extinctions caused by the human destruction of nature

Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths or mystical beasts. But if you go back though the human lineage you’ll find a very distant relative that stood three metres tall and weighed around 250 kilograms. This was Gigantopithecus blacki, the mightiest of all the primates and one of…