All were taken to Cochabamba ... has ravaged global amphibian populations. More than 500 species have been affected; 90 of these may be extinct. The fungus disrupts transmission of electrolytes ...

Around 99% of living things that have ever existed are now extinct – meaning for animals, that they have stopped breeding, died and no longer exist. But sometimes, dedicated conservationists ...

Australia lost all its large animals, including a giant wombat-relative ... they decimated the populations of many marsupials, driving some extinct. Lesser bilbies, desert bandicoots and broad ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

This all fuels a sense that de-extinction is not ... In most cases, what emerges is not an exact genetic copy of the extinct species, but a proxy: a modern organism engineered to resemble its ...

Scientists have estimated that 99.9% of all species that ever lived on the earth are now extinct. Dire wolves themselves most likely died out at the end of the last ice age when the numbers of ...

Each time a species goes extinct, the world around us unravels a bit. The consequences are profound, not just in those places and for those species but for all of us. These are tangible consequential ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.