Extinction News
October 14, 2024
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Oct. 11, 2024 — New study documents a severe coral bleaching event occurring in a deep coral reef that resulted in high rates of coral mortality. Unlike many bleaching events, this was driven by the presence of ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful raptor-like feet, according to a new ...
Oct. 7, 2024 — New research shows that international conservation efforts account for approximately 10 percent of fish stocks on coral ...
Oct. 2, 2024 — By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers says it has uncovered new evidence documenting the anatomy and ecology of an extinct ...
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Oct. 3, 2024 — According to a new study, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. This asteroid impact caused a ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — Oysters once formed extensive reefs along much of Europe's coastline -- but these complex ecosystems were destroyed over a century ago, new research ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — The study blends math, statistics and biology to show that this long-held hyperbolic pattern is an anomaly because it doesn't account for the fact that all species on earth are defined as much by ...
Oct. 2, 2024 — A recent study focusing on the Arctic Siberian primrose underscores the critical need to curb climate change to allow species time to adapt through ...
Sep. 30, 2024 — A human rights-based approach to coral reef protection could ensure governments are held to account for safeguarding marine ...
Sep. 27, 2024 — Research shows a threatening development for two endangered primate species in Bangladesh: Phayre's langurs (Trachypithecus phayrei) and capped langurs (Trachypithecus pileatus). In mixed groups of ...
Sep. 30, 2024 — Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants which includes daisies, sunflowers and asters, are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family comprises around 34,000 species, ...
Sep. 27, 2024 — A new international study has revealed the genetic impact of hunting in northern elephant seals. The research shows that this species narrowly escaped extinction by hunting, resulting in lasting ...
Sep. 26, 2024 — The structural complexity of coral reefs creates a vibrant underwater city populated by a diverse assortment of characters. Ironically, this same complexity can impede coral recovery after ...
Earlier Headlines
Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists discovered that ancient reef-building stromatoporoids survived the Late Devonian extinction, contrary to previous beliefs, and continued to thrive. The findings reveal how these organisms ...
Sep. 25, 2024 — Until now, it was believed that plants of the grape family arrived at the European continent less than 23 million years ago. A study on fossil plants draws a new scenario on the dispersal of the ...
Sep. 23, 2024 — Researchers working in Finland propose that the unique light environment of the Earth's Polar regions creates conditions that result in circumpolar hybrid zones around the North and the South ...
Sep. 23, 2024 — Using blushing coral star and genomic DNA analyses, researchers have uncovered vital links between coral populations at varying depths. They identified four distinct genetic lineages, finding strong ...
Sep. 23, 2024 — New research has found previously undocumented variation in coral heat tolerance on the Great Barrier Reef, giving hope that corals' own genetic resources may hold the key for us to help in its ...
Sep. 18, 2024 — A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the same region, according to a new ...
Sep. 18, 2024 — Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction -- even those living in almost pristine marine habitats and diverse coastal regions -- reports a new ...
Sep. 18, 2024 — A team of scientists alarmed by the loss of biodiversity across the world due to climate change has proposed a new approach to managing vulnerable landscapes, focusing on sites that are least ...
Sep. 17, 2024 — Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...
Sep. 17, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to help them find food. This is the first time this ...
Sep. 16, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a new species of fish, the 'grumpy dwarfgoby'. Found among coral reefs in the Red Sea, it has large canines and a fierce expression, even though it is only 2 cm ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. ...
Sep. 10, 2024 — Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless parrot, the k k p , evolved two different color types to potentially help them avoid detection by a now-extinct apex predator, researchers ...
Sep. 9, 2024 — Records of koala admissions to veterinary hospitals in South East Queensland shows euthanasia was the most common ...
Sep. 9, 2024 — A new theory explains how juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars (commonly known as starfish) can destabilize coral reefs. The 'degraded reef framework' explains how the loss of live coral, ...
Sep. 9, 2024 — Grey reef sharks are having to abandon the coral reefs they call home in the face of warming oceans, new research finds. Scientists, using a combination of satellite remote sensing and a network of ...
Sep. 6, 2024 — Conservation efforts directed towards just 0.7% of the world's land mass could help protect one third of the world's threatened and unique tetrapod (four-limbed vertebrate) ...
Sep. 3, 2024 — Biologists have discovered a new species of paua mollusk (also known as abalone) off New ...
Sep. 3, 2024 — A groundbreaking study has provided the most comprehensive estimate to date of infertility rates in a threatened wild animal ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Ancient Reef-Builders Dodged Extinction -- At Least Temporarily
- Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of the Grape Family
Monday, September 23, 2024
- Extreme Polar Light Environment of the North and South Poles Sustains Biodiversity
- Deeper Corals May Help Shallow Reefs Recover in the Florida Keys
- How Remarkable Diversity in Heat Tolerance Can Help Protect Coral Reefs
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- South African Rock Art Possibly Inspired by Long-Extinct Species
- Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts
- Scientists Urge New Conservation Approach to Save Vulnerable Species from Climate Change Impacts
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- Unravelling an Ancient European Extinction Mystery: Disappearance of Dwarf Megafauna on Palaeolithic Cyprus
- Highly-Sensitive Beaks Could Help Albatrosses and Penguins Find Their Food
Monday, September 16, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- How El Nino and Mega Ocean Warming Caused the Greatest-Ever Mass Extinction
- New Fossil Fish Species Scales Up Evidence of Earth's Evolutionary March
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
- Grim Statistics on Koala Survival Odds
- Crown-of-Thorns Sea Stars Thrive in Degraded Coral Habitats
- Sharks Are Abandoning Stressed Coral Reefs in Warming Oceans
Friday, September 6, 2024
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
- New Species of Paua (Abalone) Found
- Infertility Challenges Amongst Endangered Wild Songbird Population Revealed in New Study
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
- Mobile Species Are 'glue' Which Connect Different Habitats Together
- Will Climate Change Lead to the Extinction of a Newly Discovered Tarantula Species?
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- Environmental Laws Failing to Slow Deforestation
- 'Masters of Shape-Shifting': How Darkling Beetles Conquered the World
Friday, August 16, 2024
- Rethinking the Dodo
- The Banana Apocalypse Is Near, but Biologists Might Have Found a Key to Their Survival
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Friday, August 9, 2024
- Millions of Years for Plants to Recover from Global Warming
- Nature at Risk in the Hunt for the Perfect Selfie
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
- Mass Extinction 66 Million Years Ago Triggered Rapid Evolution of Bird Genomes
- 3D Models Provide Unprecedented Look at Corals' Response to Bleaching Events
- Monarch Butterflies Need Help, and a Little Bit of Milkweed Goes a Long Way
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Friday, July 26, 2024
- Thousands of Birds and Fish Threatened by Mining for Clean Energy Transition, Study Finds
- The Ancestor of All Modern Birds Probably Had Iridescent Feathers
Thursday, July 25, 2024
- New Zealand's Flightless Birds Are Retreating to Moa Refuges
- Ancient Marine Animal Had Inventive Past Despite Being Represented by Few Species
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- Komodo Dragons Have Iron-Coated Teeth to Rip Apart Their Prey
- Scientists Assess How Large Dinosaurs Could Really Get
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Monday, July 22, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Evidence for Butchery of Giant Armadillo-Like Mammals in Argentina 21,000 Years Ago
- Research Tracks 66 Million Years of Mammalian Diversity
- Logged Forests Can Still Have Ecological Value -- If Not Pushed Too Far
Monday, July 15, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Mapping the World's Fungi from Air Samples
- Global Database Reveals Large Gaps in Our Knowledge of Four-Footed Animals
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- A New Species of Extinct Crocodile Relative Rewrites Life on the Triassic Coastline
- Research Reveals the Most Complete Dinosaur Discovered in the UK in a Century
- Wolves' Return Has Had Only Small Impact on Deer Populations in NE Washington
- Researchers Listen to the Hearts of Bats in Flight
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Monday, July 8, 2024
- Study Projects Major Changes in North Atlantic and Arctic Marine Ecosystems Due to Climate Change
- Restored Oyster Sanctuaries Host More Marine Life
- Coral Reefs: Battlegrounds for Survival in a Changing Climate
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Ocean Acidification Turns Fish Off Coral Reefs
- Researchers Identify Unique Survival Strategies Adopted by Fish in the World's Warmest Waters
- The Evidence Is Mounting: Humans Were Responsible for the Extinction of Large Mammals
- Sixty-Million-Year-Old Grape Seeds Reveal How the Death of the Dinosaurs May Have Paved the Way for Grapes to Spread
Friday, June 28, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- Projected Loss of Brown Macroalgae and Seagrasses With Global Environmental Change
- Ammonites' Fate Sealed by Meteor Strike That Wiped out Dinosaurs
- Last Surviving Woolly Mammoths Were Inbred but Not Doomed to Extinction
- To Protect Corals from Summer Heatwaves, We Should Help Their Microbial Symbionts Evolve Heat Tolerance in the Lab
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Future Risk of Coral Bleaching Set to Intensify Globally
- Ocean's Loss of Oxygen Caused Massive Jurassic Extinction: Could It Happen Again?
- Frog 'saunas' A Lifeline for Endangered Frog Populations
Friday, June 21, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
- Natural Hazards Threaten Over Three Thousand Species
- Restored Rat-Free Islands Could Support Hundreds of Thousands More Breeding Seabirds
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Nile Perch Invasion Triggered Genetic Bottlenecks in Lake Victoria's Endemic Cichlids
- 'Lost' Birds List Will Aid in Protecting Species
- Ancient Polar Sea Reptile Fossil Is Oldest Ever Found in Southern Hemisphere
Friday, June 14, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Wire Snare Removal in Protected Areas Is Labor-Intensive but Effective -- And Essential to Solving the Southeast Asian Snaring Crisis
- How Sharks Survived a Major Spike in Earth's Temperature
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- What Makes Some Plant Groups So Successful?
- Fatal Attraction: When Endangered Species Try to Mate With Domestic Relatives, Both Wildlife and People Lose
- Some Species May Tolerate Climate Change Better Than Expected
- Slugs and Snails Love the City, Unlike Other Animals
- Wild Megalopolis: Study Shows Unexpected Pockets of Biodiversity Pepper Los Angeles
- Marine Protected Areas Don't Line Up With Core Habitats of Rare Migratory Fish, Finds New Research
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Biodiversity in Crabs: More Than Counting Species
- Sexual Parasitism Helped Anglerfish Invade the Deep Sea During a Time of Global Warming