New Zealand lacked mammalian land predators for mi...  ...came a refuge for species that had been hunted to extinction everywhere else. Then humans moved to Stephens Is...  ...een a few sightings in later years, the wren went extinct . Every existing specimen of the species was caugh...  ...d article implies tha...

The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was the world's...  ...xpected happened. Long after the accepted date of extinction , Tasmanians kept reporting that they’d seen...  ...only later, in school, that they were considered extinct . In 1982, an experienced park ranger, doing surve...  ...species have been fou...

In 1912, Norma Pfeiffer, a graduate student at the...  ...land a good environment for it? And why did it go extinct in 1914? You also have to wonder about how many o...  ...r about how many other species evolve and then go extinct before we ever find a trace of them. Read about t...

Two-and-a-half billion years ago, the earth was a...  ...volutionary scale. And some of them caused a mass extinction event.[https://youtu.be/dO2xx-aeZ4w] (YouTube lin...  ...-rich atmosphere that will remain after we become extinct after the climate change apocalypse. -via Digg

Saiga Antelope | Source: Global Animal The wonder...  ...ns. See 28 other animal species that could become extinct

On September first, 1914, one hundred years ago today, the very last passenger pigeon, named Martha Washington, died of old age at the Cincinnati Zoo. It's hard to imagine that once there were billions of passenger pige...

[http://youtu.be/Okmj0xxpqxM] (YouTube link)As amazing as the different species of earth are, there were so many more that are no longer with us. In some cases, that’s fortunate for us, because many were huge and p...

Once common in America, the prairie chicken called...  ...ca, the prairie chicken called the Heath hen went extinct in 1932. Until recently, there was no hope of see...  ...g with the story of the Heath hen and how it went extinct . -via Metafilter

We get excited about new species discovered every...  ...hance.And there are nine other species now on the extinct list that you can read about at Living Alongside...

The trick of attracting insects by resembling insects is a genius move by a many species of orchids. But there can be danger in such specialization. This is not the first time that Randall Munroe of xkcd made me go all v...