What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

Mass extinction events are infamous, entirely destroying many species in one fell swoop. But this particular extinction event ...

Coelacanth: Once though to be extinct for 66 million years, this ancient fish was rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938. It currently has a population of less than 1,000.

The Cost of Preventing Extinction of Australia's Priority Species Feb. 3, 2025 — A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Nearly two years after the mass shooting at Michigan State University, a new art exhibition is being displayed at the campus's Broad Art Museum. The exhibition, titled ...

More than 99% of all living species have gone extinct. Whole time periods are buried in layers of rock and sediment and, with it, libraries of information about Earth’s history and what came before us ...

Throughout history, numerous animal species have faced the brink of extinction due to factors like habitat destruction, climate change, poaching, and pollution. However, dedicated conservation efforts ...

Relocating animals to create new populations could ... the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF), calls this the “silent extinction,” because unlike the attention lavished on the disappearance ...

The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...

Identifying the seven continents, five oceans, the Equator, the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and the North and South Pole. and The Arctic Ocean. I orbit around the sun. Not that fast! It ...