Invasive species often disrupt ecosystems, but in some cases the damage goes much further. Certain introduced animals have directly driven native species to extinction, leaving permanent gaps in ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

What makes this discovery so remarkable, is that this species was considered extinct in South Australia. The closest known ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

The koalas clambering around eucalyptus canopies may be cuddly herbivores, but their extinct relatives were horrifying predators. The charismatic marsupials are the closest living relatives of ...