Tag: Extinction

Now Florida State University researchers have found that the extinction coincided with a sudden spike and subsequent drop in the ocean's oxygen content. Their...

The last of the Xerces blue butterflies fluttered through the air in San Francisco in the early 1940s. Now, they can only be seen...

A species of mouse believed to be extinct for over 150 years has unexpectedly been rediscovered by reseachers in Australia.Gould’s mouse, long believed to have...

Sicilian dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon cf. mnaidriensis lived on the island of Sicily and went extinct 19,000 years ago. A new study shows that an extinct...

Svalbard reindeer in the Arctic wilderness. Copyright: Erik Ropstad Often portrayed as pulling Santa’s sleigh, reindeer are a Christmas staple. Now, ecologists have found that...

The global giraffe population has plummeted by up to 40% over the last 30 years, and the species has been listed as Vulnerable on...

Illustration showing size comparison of Australian marsupials including new extinct species of carnivorous marsupial, Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum, from New Riversleigh fossil site in Queensland.Credit: Illustration:...

Analysis of rocks unearthed in Oman that were formed in an ancient ocean around the time of Earth's greatest mass extinction have helped explain...

Global climate change caused by soot aerosol at the K-Pg boundary.Credit: Kunio Kaiho A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the...

A new study indicates that sharks of the same species can have different personalities. Certain Port Jackson sharks were bolder than others in tests of...

This is Sclerocormus parviceps, the newly described marine reptile. Credit: Copyright Da-yong Jiang Two hundred and fifty million years ago, life on earth was in...