Extinction

Searching for hope in an age of extinction

Conservation scientists understand that very rarely extinction is not always the final chapter

Prof. Uri Roll: "The love of nature was already there."
A Northern Spotted Owl sits on a tree stump in Stanley Park on August 4, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.

To save one endangered owl species, scientists back waging war on another

.

New scans challenge the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted giant animals to extinction

Egg clutch sampled for the study.

Unveiling the Age of Dinosaur Eggs: A Groundbreaking Study


With Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi Colossal Biosciences revives the dire wolves

Using these fossils, scientists reconstructed the complete genome of the extinct species as part of Colossal's de-extinction process.

 With Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi Colossal Biosciences revives the dire wolves.

Real-life 'Game of Thrones' wolves are back: Dire wolves reborn through science

A Texas-based biotechnology company announced that it has successfully revived the long-extinct dire wolf.

 Dire wolves.

Discovering the leaf-eating, tree-clinging mammal of the Paleocene

Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ecological niche after the dinosaurs.

 Discovering the leaf-eating, tree-clinging mammal of the Paleocene.

Blood incompatibility with Homo sapiens may have led to Neanderthal extinction

If Neanderthal women mated with Homo sapiens or Denisovan men, there was a high risk of newborns having neonatal hemolytic disease.

 Blood incompatibility with Homo sapiens may have led to Neanderthal extinction.

Nearly complete fossil of 9-million-year-old great white shark relative found in Peru

The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

 Detail of the head of a plastic prehistoric shark statue. Illustration.

Colossal Biosciences Secures $200M to bring back Woolly Mammoths by 2028

Company aims to produce a woolly mammoth calf by 2028, born to a surrogate elephant mother.

 Colossal Biosciences Secures $200M to bring back Woolly Mammoths by 2028.

Over half of Mediterranean shark species are threatened with extinction due to overfishing

Researchers are calling for increased monitoring to protect threatened species, alongside more public education and incentives for fishers to use equipment that is less threatening to shark species.

 The near-threatened nursehound shark (Scyliorhinus stellaris) off the coast of Malta.

New findings reveal how severe drought doomed the 'Hobbit' species

Homo floresiensis, nicknamed hobbit due to their small stature, grew to only about 1.1 meters tall and weighed between 16 to 28 kilograms.

 New findings reveal how severe drought doomed the 'Hobbit' species.

Ten species facing extinction require monitoring in 2025, according to conservation group

Ten new species, including nine animals and one plant, have been listed as "staring extinction in the face," according to the UK-based international conservation group.

 Leptodactylus fallax, a species of frog found in Dominica, also known as the Giant Ditch Frog, or the mountain chicken

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns of increased risk of human extinction due to AI

Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI," warned of AI's dangers after receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

 Renowned British-Canadian physicist Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the "Godfather of AI," issued stark warnings about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence following his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024.