Tag: extinction

In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped the reproductive strategies and life cycle of an endangered coral species, offering hope ...

UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 00:01 BST WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2023 / 19:01 ET TUESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2023 Credit: A rare glimpse ...

With only two living females left, the partnership will contribute to the genetic recovery of the northern white rhino from ...

The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of ...

Climate change is causing extinctions at an increasing rate, a new study by the University of Arizona researchers shows. They surveyed populations ...

A new study by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that ...

  Credit: Jake Osborne   High-quality sequencing of nearly the entire kākāpō population, funded through a Genomics Aotearoa project, is ...

Scientists and imaging specialists have teamed up to help save one of the world’s most endangered groups of animals: freshwater ...

In a new study, scientists Stewart Edie of the Smithsonian, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically ...

For immediate release Credit: Credit Bristol Zoological Society For immediate release Friday 4 August 2023 Kordofan giraffes face local extinction ...

The Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) is a critically endangered species native to the Orinoco River basin in Colombia and Venezuela. ...

Slow population declines might be going undetected, while later rates of extinction could increase exponentially ### Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285945 Article ...

Algorithms can predict what movies or songs you might like, but they can also predict which species a predator would ...

The Xerces Blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces) was native to the coastal dunes of San Francisco, in the United States. As ...

Five of the most common shark species living in coral reefs have declined 60% to 73%, according to a massive ...

Every so often, life on Earth steps onto a nearly empty playing field and faces a spectacular opportunity. Something major ...

Tiny foxes — each no bigger than a five-pound housecat — inhabiting the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern ...

Like animals, many plant species are struggling to adapt to a human-dominated planet. However, plants are often overlooked in conservation ...

Fungal spores found in dung have revealed that large animals went extinct in two “waves” in the Colombian Andes. Credit: ...