Artist’s impression of the prehistoric landscape and creatures that Protemnodon would have walked among.
Peter Schouten
Some extinct kangaroos may barely have hopped at all.
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It’s hard work saving birds from extinction, but we have the evidence of successful interventions to show we can avoid further losses.
Voeltzkow’s chameleon was rediscovered in Madagascar in 2018.
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There are hundreds of lost tetrapod species across the globe and their number are increasing decade-on-decade. This study aims to find out why some are rediscovered, while others are not.
Artist’s impression of a group of Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in southern China.
Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University)
What happened to the three-metre tall apes that once lived alongside orangutans? A new study suggests they were too slow to adapt to a changing world.
Puff adders leave linear, sometimes slightly undulating traces.
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The trace was probably made between 93,000 and 83,000 years ago, almost certainly by a puff adder.
Sharks and rays are rapidly declining globally, and their situation is representative of many other exploited marine species that lack scientific monitoring.
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Through regulation, enforcement and monitoring, fisheries management can lead to recoveries in shark and ray populations.
A conservation researcher counts ringtailed lemurs for a zoo’s annual stock take. Zoos have the capacity to do more for conservation science and practice.
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Zoos have the potential to do more for growing conservation science and practice.
An impossible sight – but maybe not for long.
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Two conservation scholars break down what de-extinction looks like – and the debate over whether it could do any good.
The Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni ) was confirmed to be extinct in the wild in 1981.
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Surviving solely in zoos and botanic gardens are 33 animal and 39 plant species.
The giant bird Genyornis went extinct in Australia around 50,000 years ago.
Peter Trusler
A puzzle over the identity of an extinct bird that laid eggs across Australia has been solved.
Skeletal reconstruction of the Langebaanweg sabertooth, with highlighted elements to indicate the bones examined in this study.
Adapted from Mauricio Antón (2013)
A closer look at these fossil bones revealed more than the suggestion of a previously undescribed species - it pointed to the individual animal having suffered with osteoarthritis.
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A small congregation of the cockroaches was under the first rock scientists looked under, by sheer accident.
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All the evidence points to one thing: humans and woolly mammoths certainly lived side by side. But did humans hunt mammoths too?
Dodos have been extinct for centuries, but it’s not a simple matter to definitively designate a species as extinct.
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Species are declared extinct when there have been no verifiable sightings for 50 years. Declaring a species extinct has implications for conservation efforts and policies.
The Liopleurodon was a pliosaur of the Jurassic period.
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The fossil of a gigantic ichthyosaur was recently discovered in the UK. It wasn’t the only creature lurking in the Jurassic oceans.
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While the prospect of reviving extinct species has long been discussed, advances in genome editing have now brought such dreams close to reality.
A specimen of Proscelotes aenea collected by Loveridge in 1918 in Lumbo, Mozambique, now kept at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
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Species distribution data – or a lack thereof – can have a major bearing on how a country’s Key Biodiversity Areas and protected areas are designated.
Vlad Konstantinov, Scott Hocknull, Eromanga Natural History Museum
Australotitan was a massive long-necked sauropod estimated to weigh the equivalent of 1,400 red kangaroos.
The Tasmanian tiger’s superficial appearance was so similar to a wolf’s that European colonisers assumed it was a threat and hunted it to extinction.
Peter Trusler
A new study shows Palorchestes had unique elbows unlike any other mammal, which may have contributed to its extinction.