EXTINCTION

Its been just over 60 years since we discovered the species—and now there may be less than 20 of them left in the world.

The Bramble Cay melomys was a tiny rodent that lived on a tiny Australian island. The now-extinct animal was killed off by climate change, scientists say.

When you express gratitude with your loved ones this Thanksgiving, don’t forget to be grateful for mammoth poop.

The presumed remains of the ancient penguins are a “jumbled mixture” of bones from three modern species.

Ninety percent of frogs alive today descend from just three lineages that survived the extinction 66 million years ago.

The next time you’re feeling less than brave, remind yourself you’re already one of nature’s great success stories.

When the mass extinction began, Lystrosaurus shortened its lifespan—and its mating cycle.

A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History argues that birds are just another kind of dinosaur.

TX68 appeared to have a four in 1 billion chance of hitting Earth. That may sound like a long shot, but the odds were four times higher than the threshold NASA has set for potentially hazardous objects.

Nearly 200 species of frogs have gone extinct since the 1970s. Hundreds more may be at risk.

New facts continue to emerge about the long-gone species from Down Under.

Just over a century ago, the world’s last passenger pigeon died at Ohio’s Cincinnati Zoo on September 1. The extinction set off a worldwide bird conservation movement.