The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

The iconic North American monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus plexippus was recently listed in the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species, signalling that its ongoing decline could lead to extinction. The compounding effects of habitat degradation, insufficient food and water and climate change have led to these dwindling numbers.

The GLA Conservatives have urged Sadiq Khan to step in and prevent Extinction Rebellion’s planned occupation of Hyde Park next month.

Frogs once lived alongside dinosaurs. About 45 million years ago, the North Sea covered half of Germany. It’s incredible to think these little creatures survived the dinosaurs’ extinction. But a lower level mass death did take place in what is now called the Geiseltal region in central Germany and the…

"Major shifts in global temperature can have dramatic and varying impacts on biodiversity."

Talk of bringing the thylacine back from extinction brought to mind an old story.

While de-extinction research may benefit conservation efforts overall, we shouldn’t have to rely on it to give a wildlife a future

The thylacine had trademark stripes and, rare in the animal world, abdominal pouches in both females and males. The last known specimen died in a zoo in 1936.

Editorial: We should be keeping endangered species alive rather than bringing animals back from extinction

Everton showed by Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest were going down in the Premier League's first season when the clubs met at Goodison Park