Lonesome George, the Last Tortoise of His Kind, Is on Posthumous Display in NYC
Driven to extinction by overhunting, the world’s last Pinta Island tortoise is now a taxidermy display at New York’s American Museum of Natural History
Egypt’s Mammal Extinctions Tracked Through 6,000 Years of Art
Tomb goods and historical texts show how a drying climate and an expanding human population took their toll on the region’s wildlife
100 Years After Her Death, Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon, Still Resonates
The famed bird now finds itself at the center of a flap over de-extinction
Surprise! Science Shows That Elephant Poaching Is Unsustainable
For the first time, scientists have made a comprehensive tally of illegal killing rates across Africa
Why Everyone From Conservationists to Yao Ming to Andrew Cuomo Supports Banning Ivory Sales
Because of corruption and laundering, any system of legal ivory trade threatens the continued existence of elephants
The Ten Biggest Dinosaur Mysteries We Have Yet to Solve
Which one was the first, the biggest, the fuzziest? These puzzles continue to perplex paleontologists
Why the Dinosaurs Could Have Had a Chance of Surviving the Asteroid Strike
A new study suggests it wasn’t just the asteroid that killed the dinos, but that other factors weakened their ability to survive it
When the Last of the Great Auks Died, It Was by the Crush of a Fisherman’s Boot
Birds once plentiful and abundant, are the subject of a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum
Watch the Unnerving Gait of This 410 Million-Year-Old Arachnid
Working from well-preserved fossils, paleontologists reproduced the trigonotarbids’ walk
Europe Has Its Own Bison Species That Came Back From the Brink of Extinction
Bison were just reintroduced into a stretch of Romania where they haven’t been found for two centuries
Ancient Birds Avoided Mass Extinction By Shrinking
The shrinkage process was well underway before an asteroid brought doom to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
Bronze Sculptures of Five Extinct Birds Land in Smithsonian Gardens
Artist Todd McGrain memorializes species long-vanished, due to human impact on their habitats, in his “Lost Bird Project”
How a Single Act of Evolution Nearly Wiped Out All Life on Earth
A single gene transfer event may have caused the Great Dying
Humans Killed the Moa, Genetics Study Suggests
Yet another species humans have the distinct honor of eradicating
How Many Species Can We Find Before They Disappear Forever?
Biologists are in a race to locate and identify new species as habitats become victim to an industrialized world
How Long Does Mass Extinction Take?
By figuring out the timing and rate of the world’s most massive extinction 252 million years ago, scientists hope to figure out how such lethal events work
Did Flowers Take Out The Woolly Mammoth?
Some researchers think that the mighty beasts may have been bested by tiny flowers. Or, more precisely, the lack of them
Maybe Dingoes Don’t Deserve Their Bad Rap
Studies show that Australia’s “favorite scapegoat” most likely didn’t kill the Tasmanian tiger
We’ve Done So Well by Chesapeake Oysters, We Can Start Eating Them Again
Perhaps this time we can keep ourselves from eating them to oblivion
Doomed Species May Be Saved—A Global Search Locates a Female
With this little fish facing down extinction, a global hunt turned up a few remaining wild individuals
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