extinction Archives

Extinction need not technically be forever: some rediscovered species had been formally declared extinct.

From Covid to the threat to politicians and the murder of Sir David Amess to the climate crisis, risk rules our daily lives.

Finally, a work of innovation and optimism about the future of humankind.

What looks like a bright, sharp dividing line between humans and other animals is really an artefact of extinction.

Dinosaurs were wiped out by a giant asteroid 66 million years ago. But how were they faring before this cataclysm?

The North Atlantic was once home to a bird that bore a remarkable similarity to penguins. The great auk, also known as “the original penguin”,

Earlier this month the frontrunner for the leadership of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson, told the One Nation group of Tory MPs that they face

Rhino die every day, so why is the world mourning the loss of Tam? Tam was the last male Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia and was

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