Of those, 700 are threatened with extinction. Jane Smart, head of IUCN’s Centre for Science and Data, said it will take political will to save the jeopardized species, and the gravity of the new ...

Globally, BirdLife International estimates that 12 percent of known 9,865 bird species are now considered threatened, with 192 species, or 2 percent, facing an “extremely high risk” of extinction in .

There are thousands of species facing extinction -- mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, plants and invertebrates that are at risk of disappearing from our planet altogether. There are ...

Well, neither has anyone else alive today: the flightless bird has been extinct for about 700 years ... is the first step in bringing those species back to life. Or at least, scientists' closest ...

Our research looked at data from the government’s annual baking competition. Upon close analysis, we find a dangerous lack of ...

is the world's most comprehensive inventory of endangered species and their extinction risk. It has been used by other researchers to argue that we are not in fact facing a sixth mass extinction ...

There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known species disappear. The last mass extinction was 66 million years ago, when an asteroid wiped ...

This shift, called ecological marginalization, leads to a higher species extinction risk. According to the researchers, the quality of the habitat matters to a species' extinction risk and ...

Extinct human species: how different were they from us? Well done Homo sapiens! Yes, that's us: the modern human. We avoided extinction and thrived. But this was not the case for any other archaic ...

Almost 2,000 native species are officially listed as“threatened” in Australia – but how many have you actually heard of? Each year, ...