Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off as gone forever have reappeared in camera traps, village markets and remote ...
Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...
In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...
Several endangered species in the U.S. have recovered from their endangered status thanks to federal protections.
When you think of extinct animals, you might go to a saber-toothed cat, or the infamous dodo. But there are, unfortunately, a lot more recent animals that have gone the way of that ill-fated bird. And ...
Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...
A lucky find of fossilized dinosaur poop in eastern Montana gave scientists their first look at which birds may have survived ...
Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American There's nothing like the scientific thrill of ...
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