Australia’s biobanks store everything from seeds of native plants to the cells and tissue of threatened animal species ...
Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
Rare species face extinction risk from some deep-sea mining, scientists say - The process could have a devastating effect on species in deep sea habitats, experts said.
True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...
No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...
The Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972, has prevented the extinction of marine mammal species in U.S. waters. Proposed legislation threatens to weaken the act by restricting scientific data ...
Manta rays are surprising locals and tourists as they show up on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. According to Focus on Travel News, these endangered species are migratory and spend their spring and ...
Twenty million years ago, the Swiss Plateau region, or Mittelland, was an ocean in which dolphins swam. Researchers at the University of Zurich's Paleontological Institute have now discovered two ...
The “Mexican walking fish” faces extinction in the wild due to pollution and urban expansion in Mexico City’s lakes. Once revered by the Aztecs, now it survives mostly in labs. Found in Southeast Asia ...
The removal of even one individual — especially a reproductive-age female — can have significant and lasting consequences for ...
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