Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...

Over the course of Earth’s history, life has been decimated by cataclysmic events, each one leaving an indelible mark on the planet’s biodiversity. For millions of years, creatures that once thrived ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...