Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Extinction rates far exceed natural background levels observed in the fossil record, though they have not yet reached the scale of past mass extinction events, highlighting the urgent need for ...

Prominent new research challenges the widely held belief that Earth is currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction, suggesting instead that extinction rates peaked about a century ago and have since ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A new study indicates that extinction rates for many plants and animals are slowing down. Researchers from the University of Arizona found that extinctions peaked about 100 ...

One of the persistent claims made across the twentieth century is that humans are causing mass extinction of species, both in rate and numbers, unseen since the end of the age of dinosaurs. I ...

Extinction as a research area encompasses the quantitative and theoretical study of processes leading to the disappearance of species, populations, or lineages, integrating ecology, evolutionary ...