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Northern Michigan display to bring awareness to extinct species

[Episcopal News Service] UP Wild Church, a ministry of the Diocese of Northern Michigan and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Northern Great Lakes Synod, will observe En...

What Happens When a Species Disappears? The Chain Reaction Nobody Talks About

May 08, 2026 | Source: Planet Wildlife | by Conservation & Earth Every day, somewhere on Earth, a species quietly disappears. Scientists estimate the current extinction rate i...

Tiny eggs may explain why ammonites vanished while nautiloids survived asteroid aftermath

Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that finished off the dinosaurs 65.5 million years...

Climate Change Animal Extinction: Wildlife Species on the Brink in 2026

Climate change is driving wildlife toward extinction in 2026 through coral reef bleaching, polar bear habitat loss, and broader biodiversity collapse across the planet.

The Time Humans Almost Went Completely Extinct

Doomsday: Dinosaur Edition

This Tiny Creature Survived a World of Dinosaurs and Changed What Came Next

This tiny dinosaur-era mammal may hold the secret to surviving Earth’s worst extinction. Mammals lived alongside dinosaurs for millions of years until a catastrophic event 66 milli...

The Zhamanshin Impact Event Was Likely Much More Destructive Than Thought

Around 900,000 years ago, an impactor slammed into modern-day Kazakhstan and excavated a crater about 14 km in diameter. It was the most recent hypervelocity impactor powerful enou...

How primitive plants evolved to survive Earth's most catastrophic extinction event

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a group of primitive plants to survive. Research led by the...

Proche de l'extinction (Near extinction)

Une étude révèle que les ancêtres humains ont frôlé l'extinction il y a plus de 900 000 ans. Moins de 1 300 individus ont survécu.Traduction :A study claims that human ancestors te...

This tiny mammal survived the dinosaur apocalypse and changed life on Earth

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, Cimolodon desosai, lived 75 million years ago and had t...

Darkness, Size Influenced End-Cretaceous Sea Extinctions

In the quest to unravel one of the most profound mysteries in Earth’s history, scientists have long debated the physiological and ecological mechanisms that drove the marine extinc...

Deep-Sea Corals Vanished for Over 1,000 Years in the Galápagos — We May Now Know Why

Learn how a dramatic climate shift in the Pacific may have wiped out an entire underwater ecosystem deep below the Galápagos — and it could happen again.

Disappearing megafauna may have prompted a stone tool revolution

Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the archaeological record

The Zhamanshin impact event was likely much more destructive than thought

Earth and the course of life on Earth have been shaped by impacts. Scientists have uncovered links between massive impacts and changes in climate that altered the planet forever. B...

Before dinosaurs vanished, a hamster-sized mammal was already shaping what survived next on the Pacific Coast

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet. Despite the devastation, some animals survived, including...

Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction

A handful of plankton fossils buried in a small chunk of rock show that the oceans were teeming with life before the Late Ordovician mass extinction, the second most severe on reco...

Mammal ancestors laid eggs—and this 250-million-year-old fossil proves it

A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth's history, and answering a decades-old scientific mystery. Lystrosaurus, a hardy, plan...

A supervolcano nearly wiped out humanity 74,000 years ago, but humans did something incredible

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Y...

When The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit, This Life-Form Feasted On The Death

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By 2085, a Third of All Animal Habitats Could Be Hit by Multiple Climate Disasters at Once

In the summer of 2019, a heatwave moving across eastern Australia killed more than 72,000 flying foxes. The bats dropped from their roost trees mid-flight, or died clinging to bran...

Study Reveals Elephant Decline Triggers Ecosystem Chain Reaction Beginning with Dung Beetles

For many years, ecologists have hypothesized that the removal or extinction of a key species within an ecosystem could trigger a domino effect of declines and collapses across vari...

An asteroid extinguished all the dinosaurs except for birds. Here’s why

Scientists finally understand why birds were the only dinosaurs to pull through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

Why gradual environmental change can trigger sudden species collapse and fragmented populations

When species are subjected to changing environments, they can survive in their current location through genetic adaptation. However, this ability is not unlimited. In a study publi...