The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat ready to pounce, or a group of elephantlike mammoths stripping tree branches. Maybe a herd of giant bison would stampede past.

Commissioner says existential threat unlikely, but ‘guardrails’ needed for decisions affecting livelihoods

MEXICO CITY - The vaquita, a small porpoise on the verge of extinction, is still hanging in there, said scientists Wednesday who had spotted about a dozen specimens of Mexico's "panda of the sea" on an expedition in May.

Discussions at the recent COP15 biodiversity conference in Montréal highlighted once again the impact of human activities on wildlife. Many species are forced to migrate, are seeing their populations declining, or worse, are finding themselves on the brink of extinction. For example, the populations of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) are…

Tim Cook made the comments speaking to Good Morning America which comes just a week after leading AI figures such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis warned AI could risk the 'extinction' of humanity

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A study into a rare lizard has uncovered four subspecies, but their discovery could mean two of them are already lost forever.

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