Extinct Animals
Farewell, Docile Creature: Caribbean Monk Seal Declared Extinct
Because of human disturbance, the Caribbean monk seal has vanished from the face of the earth.
Diplodocus
Read on to know more about one of the largest Dinosaurs that has walked the Earth…
Extinct!! (Part IV)
This is the fourth part of the series that chronicles animals that are extinct or have been on the verge of extinction and the reasons behind it.
Extinct Part III
The third part of the series on the phenomenon of animals getting extinct and the lessons that it holds for human beings. This is a chronicle of some of the most profound examples of extinction/endangerment and their causes.
Extinct!! (Part II)
The second part of the series on the phenomenon of animals getting extinct and the lessons that it holds for human beings. This is a chronicle of some of the most profound examples of extinction/endangerment and their causes.
Extinct!!
The phenomenon of animals getting extinct is one which holds a lot of lessons for human beings. This is a chronicle of some of the most profound examples of extinction and their causes.
Endangered Species: Endangered Animals Require Human Action To Prevent Imminent Extinction
As overpopulation and industry encroach on natural habitats, several plant and animal species face possible extinction.
Endangered Species: Making a Difference For Extinction and Preservation of Endangered Species
As a changing environment affects animals and habitats, motivated people can mean the difference between extinction and preservation for endangered species.
Amphibian Extinction May First Claim The Frog
Article about the potential extinction of the frog.
Orang Utans Face Extinction By 2012
The palm oil trade is wiping out one of man's closest relatives, as plantation owners pay a $10 bounty for every ape trapped or beaten to death. David Smith asks if it's too late to save them.
Tuna Stocks Close to Exhaustion, Says Wwf
Japan's huge appetite for tuna will take the most sought-after stocks to the brink of commercial extinction unless more rigid quotas are agreed, wildlife campaigners warned yesterday.
Japan Warned Tuna Stocks Face Extinction
Japan's huge appetite for tuna will take the most sought-after stocks to the brink of commercial extinction unless fisheries agree on more rigid quotas, wildlife campaigners warned today.
Scientists Aim to Save Lesser-known Mammals at Risk of Extinction
Public urged to back British campaign for animals such as pygmy hippopotamus.
Japan's Black Bears 'face Extinction'
Conservationists warned today that Japan's population of Asiatic black bears faces extinction following a record number of killings of bears that strayed into towns and villages in search of food.
Tigers on the Brink of Extinction
· Study finds massive drop in key habitat areas · More protection urged to save wild populations
West African Black Rhino Feared Extinct
The West African black rhino appears to have become extinct, according to a leading global conservation group. Extensive searches throughout the black rhino's last known habitat in northern Cameroon have failed to find any rhinos or signs of their existence.
Mass Extinction Rate 'faster Than Dinosaurs'
Polar bears and hippos have joined the ranks of threatened species, along with a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals and coniferous plants, according to the World Conservation Union.
Researchers Pinpoint Mammal Extinction Hotspots
· Global map shows areas at risk from human activity · Conservationists urged to take preventive action
Antelope Feared Extinct is Rediscovered in Angola
Of all the animals to lose, the giant sable antelope might seem be the most embarrassing.
Discovery of New Species Bucks Extinction Trend
Just as 1,300 scientists from 90 nations warn of looming extinction in the animal world, a small team of biologists has discovered a species of African monkey.
Hunters Leave Bonobo on Brink of Extinction
The ape considered to be man's closest relative could be on the brink of extinction, researchers warned today.
Mallorcan midwife toad saved from extinction
One of the world's strangest animals, the Mallorcan midwife toad, has been rescued from the brink of extinction. The success provides conservationists with a rare boost to their hopes that amphibians - whose numbers are decliningalarmingly across the world - can saved from oblivion.
Great Apes Face Extinction
In the past decade the number of eastern lowland gorillas has plunged from 17,000 to 5,000, according to Conservation International.
MEPs Told Iberian Lynx on Verge of Extinction
The Iberian lynx, the metre-long cat that lives only in Spain and Portugal, is on the verge of extinction, says a report to the European parliament being published today. In 40 years the population has slumped from thousands to an estimated 135, of which just 28 are breeding females. The...
Extinction Threat to More Than 1,000 Bird Species
More than 1,000 bird species face extinction because of an alarming and accelerating loss of biodiversity, a study warns today. Environmental degradation could wipe out 1,211 species, an eighth of the world's total, according to the report by BirdLife International, an umbrella...
1 in 10 Animals and Plants Will Be Extinct By 2050
· Global warming to kill off 1m species
· Scientists shocked by results of research
· 1 in 10 animals and plants extinct by 2050
Last Chance To Halt Great Ape Extinction
According to the United Nations, at least $25 million is urgently needed to save the planet's last few gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans from destruction.
'Extinct' Warbler Found in Fiji
The long-legged warbler, a robin-sized bird thought extinct since 1894, has been rediscovered in Fiji. Twelve pairs, some with young, were photographed by researchers carrying out a rare bird survey. Trichocichla rufa, which was only previously known from four individuals collected...
Countdown to Extinction for World's Great Apes
Disappearance of gorillas, chimps and orang-utans would 'destroy a bridge to our own origins', warns United Nations.
Lions Are Approaching Extinction
According to wildlife experts, there are now only 23,000 lions left in Africa. That compares with over 200,000 in the 1980s, and if the populations continue to fall, experts predict lions will soon become extinct.
Monogamy May Threaten Species Survival
Recent research at nature reserves in Ghana, Africa, has found that among mammals, monogamy may be a risk factor for extinction of their species.
Antelope stampeding to extinction
The saiga antelope - one of the world's most endangered mammals - could be stampeding towards extinction simply because there are not enough males to go round.
Turtle Hurtles Towards Extinction
Species that swam seas 96m years before humans walked earth could be wiped out within 10 years. It weighs a tonne and it has outlived the dinosaurs by 65m years. But the leatherback sea turtle - one of the largest, oldest and widest-ranging marine animals ever to cruise the oceans - could be heading for extinction.
Extinction Fears Stalk the Big Wild Cats of Spain
It is the biggest wild cat left in western Europe, but according to a group of experts meeting in emergency session yesterday, the elusive Iberian lynx may soon disappear for good. Four years ago, official estimates of the number of wild examples of this European relative of the lion and...
Scientists Pledge to Clone Extinct Tasmanian Tiger
A team of Australian scientists pledged yesterday to salve their country's conscience by bringing a cloned Tasmanian tiger back to the island where it was hunted to extinction more than 60 years ago.
Plant Eating Hammerhead Shark on Legs Was Easy Prey
It had the long neck of a Diplodocus. It had a mouth like a hammerhead shark. It had up to 1,000 teeth in its intricate jaws, and it would have swung its long neck to crop low-lying meadows of ferns like a mesozoic lawnmower, says Paul Sereno, dinosaur-hunter extraordinary. It has been...
Article about the potential extinction of the frog.
Orang Utans Face Extinction By 2012
The palm oil trade is wiping out one of man's closest relatives, as plantation owners pay a $10 bounty for every ape trapped or beaten to death. David Smith asks if it's too late to save them.
Tuna Stocks Close to Exhaustion, Says Wwf
Japan's huge appetite for tuna will take the most sought-after stocks to the brink of commercial extinction unless more rigid quotas are agreed, wildlife campaigners warned yesterday.
Japan Warned Tuna Stocks Face Extinction
Japan's huge appetite for tuna will take the most sought-after stocks to the brink of commercial extinction unless fisheries agree on more rigid quotas, wildlife campaigners warned today.
Scientists Aim to Save Lesser-known Mammals at Risk of Extinction
Public urged to back British campaign for animals such as pygmy hippopotamus.
Japan's Black Bears 'face Extinction'
Conservationists warned today that Japan's population of Asiatic black bears faces extinction following a record number of killings of bears that strayed into towns and villages in search of food.
Tigers on the Brink of Extinction
· Study finds massive drop in key habitat areas · More protection urged to save wild populations
West African Black Rhino Feared Extinct
The West African black rhino appears to have become extinct, according to a leading global conservation group. Extensive searches throughout the black rhino's last known habitat in northern Cameroon have failed to find any rhinos or signs of their existence.
Mass Extinction Rate 'faster Than Dinosaurs'
Polar bears and hippos have joined the ranks of threatened species, along with a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals and coniferous plants, according to the World Conservation Union.
Researchers Pinpoint Mammal Extinction Hotspots
· Global map shows areas at risk from human activity · Conservationists urged to take preventive action
Antelope Feared Extinct is Rediscovered in Angola
Of all the animals to lose, the giant sable antelope might seem be the most embarrassing.
Discovery of New Species Bucks Extinction Trend
Just as 1,300 scientists from 90 nations warn of looming extinction in the animal world, a small team of biologists has discovered a species of African monkey.
Hunters Leave Bonobo on Brink of Extinction
The ape considered to be man's closest relative could be on the brink of extinction, researchers warned today.
Mallorcan midwife toad saved from extinction
One of the world's strangest animals, the Mallorcan midwife toad, has been rescued from the brink of extinction. The success provides conservationists with a rare boost to their hopes that amphibians - whose numbers are decliningalarmingly across the world - can saved from oblivion.
Great Apes Face Extinction
In the past decade the number of eastern lowland gorillas has plunged from 17,000 to 5,000, according to Conservation International.
MEPs Told Iberian Lynx on Verge of Extinction
The Iberian lynx, the metre-long cat that lives only in Spain and Portugal, is on the verge of extinction, says a report to the European parliament being published today. In 40 years the population has slumped from thousands to an estimated 135, of which just 28 are breeding females. The...
Extinction Threat to More Than 1,000 Bird Species
More than 1,000 bird species face extinction because of an alarming and accelerating loss of biodiversity, a study warns today. Environmental degradation could wipe out 1,211 species, an eighth of the world's total, according to the report by BirdLife International, an umbrella...
1 in 10 Animals and Plants Will Be Extinct By 2050
· Global warming to kill off 1m species
· Scientists shocked by results of research
· 1 in 10 animals and plants extinct by 2050
Last Chance To Halt Great Ape Extinction
According to the United Nations, at least $25 million is urgently needed to save the planet's last few gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans from destruction.
'Extinct' Warbler Found in Fiji
The long-legged warbler, a robin-sized bird thought extinct since 1894, has been rediscovered in Fiji. Twelve pairs, some with young, were photographed by researchers carrying out a rare bird survey. Trichocichla rufa, which was only previously known from four individuals collected...
Countdown to Extinction for World's Great Apes
Disappearance of gorillas, chimps and orang-utans would 'destroy a bridge to our own origins', warns United Nations.
Lions Are Approaching Extinction
According to wildlife experts, there are now only 23,000 lions left in Africa. That compares with over 200,000 in the 1980s, and if the populations continue to fall, experts predict lions will soon become extinct.
Monogamy May Threaten Species Survival
Recent research at nature reserves in Ghana, Africa, has found that among mammals, monogamy may be a risk factor for extinction of their species.
Antelope stampeding to extinction
The saiga antelope - one of the world's most endangered mammals - could be stampeding towards extinction simply because there are not enough males to go round.
Turtle Hurtles Towards Extinction
Species that swam seas 96m years before humans walked earth could be wiped out within 10 years. It weighs a tonne and it has outlived the dinosaurs by 65m years. But the leatherback sea turtle - one of the largest, oldest and widest-ranging marine animals ever to cruise the oceans - could be heading for extinction.
Extinction Fears Stalk the Big Wild Cats of Spain
It is the biggest wild cat left in western Europe, but according to a group of experts meeting in emergency session yesterday, the elusive Iberian lynx may soon disappear for good. Four years ago, official estimates of the number of wild examples of this European relative of the lion and...
Scientists Pledge to Clone Extinct Tasmanian Tiger
A team of Australian scientists pledged yesterday to salve their country's conscience by bringing a cloned Tasmanian tiger back to the island where it was hunted to extinction more than 60 years ago.
Plant Eating Hammerhead Shark on Legs Was Easy Prey
It had the long neck of a Diplodocus. It had a mouth like a hammerhead shark. It had up to 1,000 teeth in its intricate jaws, and it would have swung its long neck to crop low-lying meadows of ferns like a mesozoic lawnmower, says Paul Sereno, dinosaur-hunter extraordinary. It has been...