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LOUD ORGIES OF MEXICAN FISH COULD DEAFEN DOLPHINS SAY SCIENTISTS
An individual spawning Gulf corvina, say the researchers, utters a mating call resembling a really loud machine gun with multiple rapid sound pulses... READ MORE›
NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION, OFFICIALS SAY
Mark Murray-Brown, an Endangered Species Act consultant for NOAA, said right whales have been declining in abundance since 2010, with females hit harder than males... READ MORE›
TWO KIWI SPECIES NO LONGER ENDANGERED IN NEW RED LIST
There are now 17,700 mature individuals of the Northern Brown kiwi species in New Zealand... READ MORE›
RED LIST: THOUSANDS OF SPECIES AT RISK OF EXTINCTION DUE TO HUMAN ACTIVITY
Craig Hilton-Taylor, who heads the group's red list unit, said species were going extinct at a faster rate than at any time in human history... READ MORE›
CHESTER ZOO SUCCESSFULLY BREEDS RARE CATALAN NEWT
The critically endangered species, also known as the wild Montseny newt, is from the Montseny mountain range in north-eastern Catalonia, about 60 miles 100km north of Barcelona... READ MORE›
PASSENGER PIGEONS NOW EXTINCT SURVIVED PREDATORS BY FORMING HUGE FLOCKS
The birds evolved quickly and may have adapted to large social groups, hunting and breeding together... READ MORE›
BRITISH RESEARCHERS TRACE MYSTERY DEER SKIN BACK TO CHINA'S HAINAN
Pere David's deer is currently the only mammal species that is extinct in the wild but surviving in captivity... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Extinction
EARTH'S SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION EVENT UNDER WAY, SCIENTISTS WARN
Researchers talk of 'biological annihilation' as study reveals billions of populations of animals have been lost in recent decades... READ MORE›
SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION? TWO-THIRDS OF WILDLIFE COULD BE GONE BY 2020
In the report, the rapid extinction is blamed on habitat loss, over exploitation of resources, pollution and climate change... READ MORE›
WHAT IF ALL BUMBLEBEES WENT EXTINCT? WE'D BE IN 'A WORLD OF TROUBLE'
The rusty patched bumblebee isA now the first bee of any type in the continental U.S. to receive the endangered species designation... READ MORE›
GIRAFFES FACING EXTINCTION AFTER DEVASTATING DECLINE, EXPERTS WARN
The cage bird trade in Asia is also driving many feathered species towards extinction, including the spectacular sunset lorikeet... READ MORE›
THIS IS HOW YOUR WORLD COULD END
I met University of New Hampshire paleoclimatologist Matthew Huber at a diner near his campus in Durham, New Hampshire... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTING 'MOST' SPECIES ON EARTH, EVEN DOWN TO THEIR GENOME
In all, nearly 700 species in just these two groups are flagging under climate change, according to this research... READ MORE›
GIRAFFES FACE 'SILENT EXTINCTION' AS POPULATION SHRINKS NEARLY 40 PERCENT
In 1985, there were between 151,000 and 163,000 giraffes but in 2015 the number was down to 97,562, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN ... READ MORE›
3 PERMIAN-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION C 250 MILLION YEARS AGO.
The changes to the Earth's biology do, therefore, include a rapidly developing mass extinction event, as charted by Gerardo Caballos and his colleagues... READ MORE›
ARE PLANTS INTELLIGENT? NEW BOOK SAYS YES
This is why plants have no brain not because they are not intelligent, but because they would be vulnerable, Mancuso said... READ MORE›
WORLD'S MAMMALS BEING EATEN INTO EXTINCTION, REPORT WARNS
First global assessment finds 301 species are primarily at risk from human hunting for the bushmeat trade... READ MORE›
WE'VE LOST MORE THAN HALF THE WORLD'S WILDLIFE SINCE 1970
Evidence in this years Living Planet Report supports this, said Marco Lambertini,A WWF director general... READ MORE›
REVEALED: THE CRIMINALS MAKING MILLIONS FROM ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING
Many iconic animals are heading toward extinction only 30,000 rhinos are alive today, 5 percent of the number four decades ago... READ MORE›
60 PERCENT OF GLOBAL WILDLIFE SPECIES WIPED OUT
The Living Planet Report 2016, released on Thursday, blamed deforestation, pollution, overfishing, and the illegal wildlife trade for pushing species populations to the edge ... READ MORE›
THE 10 SPECIES MOST AT RISK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
Species such as the hawksbill turtle are dependant on coral reefs which are bleaching and dying with climate change... READ MORE›
NEW SPECIES OF GIBBON DISCOVERED IN CHINA
Newly recognised species given the name 'Skywalker hoolock gibbon' by the team that proved it was distinct from other Chinese gibbons... READ MORE›
HUMANS CREATING SIXTH GREAT EXTINCTION OF ANIMAL SPECIES, SAY SCIENTISTS
The modern world is experiencing a sixth great extinction of animal species even when the lowest estimates of extinction rates are considered, scientists have warned... READ MORE›
DEATH OF ENDANGERED NORTHERN WHITE RHINO LEAVES JUST SIX OF THE ANIMALS LEFT IN THE WORLD
While there are thousands of southern white rhinos still roaming the plains of sub-Saharan Africa, decades of rampant poaching have drastically cut northern white rhino numbers... READ MORE›
HALF THE WORLD'S SPECIES COULD GO EXTINCT AND YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM
He points to biologists' predictions that half of the world's species could become extinct by the middle of the century... READ MORE›
RED LIST: ASH TREES AND ANTELOPES ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION
While more than 150 new endangered species have been added to the new Red List, the prospects of some have improved... READ MORE›
NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED BEHIND A PUB - THEN SAVED FROM EXTINCTION
The Auckland Zoo is even working to turn an off-shore island into an invasive species-free sanctuary for threatened New Zealand species... READ MORE›
CHEETAH 'MORE VULNERABLE TO EXTINCTION THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT'
In Zimbabwe, cheetah numbers have plummeted by 85 percent in little more than a decade... READ MORE›
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR MADAGASCAR - EVOLUTION'S LAST, AND GREATEST, LABORATORY
Kew scientists warn that unique plants on Madagascar are at risk of extinction... READ MORE›
THE WORLD IS MAKING A LAST PUSH TO SAVE ITS CUTEST PORPOISE FROM EXTINCTION. IT PROBABLY WON'T WORK.
This vaquita, or the Gulf of California harbor porpoise, was snagged as by-catch in Mexico's Gulf of California... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S 'RAREST' CREATURE HAS JUST BEEN SEEN FOR ONLY THE THIRD TIME EVER
Peter Ward a professor of biology at the University of Washington in the US first saw Allonautilus scrobiculatus in 1984... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE COULD WIPE OUT A THIRD OF PARASITE SPECIES, STUDY FINDS
Climate change could wipe out a third of parasite species, study finds... READ MORE›
UNDERGROUND MAGMA TRIGGERED EARTH'S WORST MASS EXTINCTION WITH GREENHOUSE GASES
But those rock dates presented science with a new puzzle why was the mass extinction event much shorter than the eruptions?... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN BISON FOUND POISONED, DECAPITATED ON SPANISH RESERVE
Police investigating attack on small herd at Valdeserrillas reserve in Valencia after staff discover headless body of dominant male... READ MORE›
CHINA TO CREATE 'GIANT' GIANT PANDA RESERVE TO BOOST WILD POPULATION
As well as the giant panda, the national park will help protect 8,000 endangered animals and plants, Xinhua said... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST GORILLA MOVED TO 'CRITICALLY ENDANGERED' STATUS
An update of International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN Red List contains bad news about great ape species... READ MORE›
CECIL THE LION AND ENDANGERED ANIMALS LIGHT UP NEW YORK
Cecil the lion and world's most endangered animals projected on Empire State Building... READ MORE›