Extinction

The Russian Far East hosts some of the world's most exotic creatures, many represented by just a few hundred remaining animals that exist nowhere else.

Researchers are just beginning to untangle the mystery of why more than half of Kazakhstan's critically endangered saigas died off in a few weeks in late May.

Researchers are just beginning to untangle the mystery of why more than half of Kazakhstan's critically endangered saigas died off in a few weeks in late May.

One of the last five northern white rhinoceroses in the world has died. Three females and one male are left.

The mighty megafauna of the last ice age, including the wooly mammoths, short faced bears and cave lions, largely went extinct because of rapid climate-warming events, a new study finds.

Can unique and rare American livestock be saved from extinction?

Florida panthers are getting a lifeline in newly protected territory, but will it be enough?

Diverse animals across the globe are slipping away and dying as Earth enters its sixth mass extinction, a new study finds.

Only five northern white rhinoceroses are left on Earth. Can reproductive technology save a subspecies driven to near extinction?

Without elephants, hippos and rhinos, the world will not be the same.

The Chicxulub meteor impact 66 million years ago may have triggered a magnitude-11 earthquake that shook loose massive amounts of lava in India.

Scientists plan to drill deep into the Chicxulub crater formed by a space rock that smashed into Earth 65.5 million years ago, killing off the dinosaurs.

A deformed frog, preserved and stained with its disfigurations, is a poignant statement on environmental destruction.

To understand extinction, art can bring a brutal power to the message of loss.

Save the river porpoise, save China.

Sometime between 300 million and 600 million years ago, a massive space rock split in two before colliding with the planet.

Fossils left behind by a penguin that was hunted to extinction reveal a remarkably fast turnover in species occurred after Polynesians settlers wiped out New Zealand's weird island wildlife.