This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.The first wave of the “Sixth Extinction” outlined in ...

The loss of species due to animal extinctions is a profound tragedy for our world. It strips away the incredible diversity and delicate balance that sustains ecosystems and enriches our planet. Every ...

Anthropologists created a computational model to predict the likelihood of animal extinctions based on the complex interaction of hunting and environmental change. During the Late Pleistocene, ...

Anthropogenic extinction, which is driven by human activities, poses a severe threat to biodiversity worldwide. Professor Bridget B. Baker of the University of Florida's Wildlife Ecology and ...

Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is revealing survivors. In what is now China, it seems that plants were able to ...