For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back? ~life.style Article 2227 words 35 votes
Twenty-one species removed from endangered list due to extinction, US wildlife officials say ~enviro Article 507 words, published Oct 18 2023 30 votes
Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago ~science biology anthropology Article 668 words 51 votes
Can alligators survive this apex predator? | Kenny Coogan ~enviro conservation Video 5:23, published Aug 24 2023 8 votes
Saving the Red Handfish from extinction ~science biology.marine Video 3:43, published May 17 2023 7 votes
What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem? ~science biology Ask Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse? 36 votes
Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals ~enviro Article 1018 words, published Oct 12 2022 7 votes
The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology ~science biology Article 1406 words, published Sep 28 2022 8 votes
Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers ~enviro water.fresh Article 740 words 10 votes
Norway's breeding programme sees arctic foxes return in high numbers – foxes still listed as under threat of becoming extinct in Scandinavia ~enviro conservation Article 304 words 3 votes
Humble suckers: Pacific lamprey have survived five mass extinctions but are now under threat ~enviro conservation Article 2130 words, published Jan 26 2022 2 votes
Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years ~science biology.evolutionary archaeology Article 1021 words 9 votes
The mystery of Denmark's vanishing wolf pack – are hunters to blame? ~enviro Article 657 words 3 votes
The wolf that discovered California: Nearly a century after the last wolf was eradicated in the state, a lone female arrived and established a pack. Not everyone is cheering. ~enviro conservation Article 11 votes
Restoring farmland could drastically slow extinctions, fight climate change ~enviro climate change Article 914 words, published Oct 14 2020 6 votes
Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified ~science Article 830 words 13 votes
A handful of radical nature lovers are secretly breeding endangered species and releasing them into the wild. Many are prepared to break the law to save the animals they love. ~enviro conservation Article 4780 words 16 votes
The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think ~science biology Article published Apr 17 2020 7 votes
Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off ~enviro conservation Article 750 words 11 votes
When the giant Galapagos tortoise faced extinction, Diego answered the call ~enviro Article 445 words 6 votes
Study shows erosion of ozone layer responsible for mass extinction event ~enviro Article 1135 words 8 votes
Eleven percent rise in threatened Swedish species over the past five years, according to the latest report from SLU, the Swedish Species Information Centre ~enviro conservation climate change Link 5 votes
New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs ~enviro conservation Article 641 words 4 votes
Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction ~humanities.languages Article 12 votes
The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct ~enviro Article 590 words 4 votes
The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct ~enviro Article 1030 words 3 votes
Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult ~science biology medicine Article 8033 words 8 votes
How climate change threatens Iceland's iconic puffins – and the community that has gone from hunting and eating them, to rescuing them ~enviro climate change conservation Article 1550 words 5 votes
Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said ~humanities.history Article 278 words 4 votes
Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population ~science biology.marine Article 788 words 6 votes
In California, orcas and salmon have become so scarce people have forgotten what once was. Will the Northwest be next? ~enviro Article 4419 words 11 votes
Scientists discover new evidence of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs ~science Article 59 words 11 votes
The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch ~science Article 3728 words 15 votes
Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions ~enviro Article 3376 words 8 votes
Once nearly dead as the dodo, California condor comeback reaches 1,000 chicks ~enviro conservation Article 413 words 11 votes
Our taste for turtle soup nearly wiped out terrapins. Then Prohibition saved them. ~food history Article 1264 words 4 votes
Scientists successfully transfer first test tube rhino embryo ~science biology medicine Article 579 words 6 votes
When the Māori first settled New Zealand, they hunted flightless, 500-pound birds ~humanities.history Article 1041 words 12 votes
Dragon quest: Australia kicks off search for possibly extinct lizard ~enviro conservation Article 570 words 5 votes