Animal populations have fallen by 73% in some species over the past 50 years. Are we on a fast track to widespread species ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The researchers from the University of York, in the United Kingdom, believe that if human-triggered extinction continue ...

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 ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

Introduction: Extinct Taxa: Accounting for 99.999... % of thc Earth's Biota / Michael J. Novacek and Quentin D. Wheeler -- 1. Interpreting Extinctions from the Fossil Record: Methods, Assumptions, and ...

Christopher Lean receives funding from the Australian Government through the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (project number CE200100029). Andrew James Latham has been supported by a ...