And it reveals a big problem with the nation’s approach to saving endangered species.

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The greatest mass extinction of all time was triggered by climatic conditions that are beginning to reappear today, ...

A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...

New scientific milestones in the mission to reverse the extinction of the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) are advancing University of Melbourne research and progressing potential solutions to the broader ...

A comprehensive study of more than 1,100 springs in the American West warns that critical biodiversity hot spots are facing a ...

A new study reveals metabolism's role in Earth's greatest marine extinction event. Organisms' oxygen use and energy ...

In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—announced that about 1 million species around the world are ...

A Nature Ecology & Evolution paper found that of 42 African raptor species, 37 had suffered a population decline over just three generations (up to 40 years). Raptors like secretarybirds (Sagittarius ...

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 ...