Humans are very good at wiping out wildlife. From dodos, to golden toads, to Tasmanian tigers, many species have succumbed to our unique blend of destruction. But just how many animal species have ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...

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We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

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, ...

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 ...