The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

'The simple things that should be easily done are not being done'

Southern Company spent $62.1m over the years to deny the impact of fossil fuel combustion on climate crisis

Turquoise parrots were fighting back from the brink of extinction when the Black Summer bushfires wiped out much of their nesting habitat. Small populations in the Snowy Mountains survived by populating unburnt sections of bushland and now the local community is doing everything it can to help them.

Human nest raiders may have been responsible for the extinction of Australia’s flightless thunderbird known as Genyornis, scientists believe.

New study finds 44% of world’s land surface needs increased protection, with 1m wildlife species at risk of extinction

As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however, the Earth is losing animals, birds, reptiles and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering the sixth mass extinction in its history.

Ancient great white sharks could have driven their massive megalodon cousins into extinction by stealing their prey, a new study has revealed.

Rising seas choked the flora on the tiny mammals’ island habitat, and in just a few years they were gone

It had 276 teeth and grew longer than a bus. So why did the world's biggest shark die out about 4 million years ago?