We often post about endangered animals, but plants can go extinct as well. Plant species' fortunes are affected by the actions of humans and other animals. Consider the strange case of the plant pictured here known as Ca...

The snail shells above are simply gorgeous, as...  ...The only problem? The snails are being driven to extinction just so people can makes earrings and necklaces f...  ...son humans have been driving certain creatures to extinction

When you’re a kid, you know the dinosaurs went e...  ...I remember the first time I really realized what extinction meant when I went to the San Diego Zoo and saw a...  ...picture of the dodo bird on a sign talking about extinction . I was familiar with the bird from Alice and Wond...  ...ive legal protection...

Photo: De Agostini Picture Library/BBCScientists h...  ...ts have put forth various theories to explain the extinction of the giant Elephant Bird, the largest bird to e...  ...es.Sir David says: "I doubt it was hunted to extinction – anyone who has seen an ostrich in a zoo k...

Since 1980, paleontologists have suggested that a terrible meteorite impact millions of years ago radically altered the Earth's climate and killed off the dinosaur population. Now a study led by David Jolley of Aberdeen...

Why did woolly mammoth go extinct? Scientists discovered that the none-too-smart animal enjoyed - and I quote - "poo-snack":... a team led by Bas van Geel of the University of Amsterdam found fungus spores deep...

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There's no way of knowing whether the tiger that m...  ...said. The Indochinese tiger is on the brink of extinction , with small populations in Laos, Vietnam. Cambodi...

First it was bluefin tuna, then Playboy bunnies, t...  ...een 2030 and 2060, all coral reefs were doomed to extinction , he said. “They would be the world’s...  ...Having Great Vocab Didn't Save the Thesaurus From Extinction

The remarkable Rainbow Finch is found in Australia yet there are only around two thousand of them left in the wild. Although conservation attempts are ongoing the question now seems to be whether or not this beautiful s...