Extinction

In 2017, a rosy wolf slug crawled along a sunlit path in Tahiti with an unexpected passenger: a bespoke computer the size of an aphid that was screwed delicately onto its case like a cylinder.This particular snail species is involved in the…

About 65 million years ago a rock from space hit the earth, devastating life and leaving a large crater on the surface of our planet.No, it's not who you are thinking of.Boltysh Crater, a 15 miles wide formation in central Ukraine, may not…

Every day, thousands of hooks and nets designed for fish catch seabirds - a global problem that is threatening many species of seabirds with extinction. But no fishing gear can do more damage than the gill net, which entangles and kills at…

They used the model to test how habitat, fishing pressures and socio-economics affect the population and ranked countries according to the risk of sawfish becoming extinct. The study found that the availability of mangrove habitats coupled…

In 2019, the world's rarest turtle suffered a staggering loss. The last known female of the species, Swinhoe's softshell turtle, died after an artificial insemination process in the Chinese zoo where she and her partner lived. This left…

To save endangered plant species, horticulturists use a tactic inherited from horse breeders and zookeepers and create breeding registers or "stud books" to avoid inbreeding. Of course, they start with a plant with a Latin name that means…