Anthropogenic extinction, which is driven by human activities, poses a severe threat to biodiversity worldwide. Professor Bridget B. Baker of the University of Florida's Wildlife Ecology and ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have ...

Erin Saupe receives funding from the Leverhulme Prize and NERC grant NE/V011405/1. Cooper Malanoski does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said ...