The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Merced County is taking action and ensuring residents impacted by the delays in CalFresh benefits have access to food and other resources during the government shutdown ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

In moments of crisis or uncertainty, finding help can feel overwhelming. A new interactive map from Delaware Online/The News Journal aims to change that by making it easier to locate support services ...

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A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

Stewart Edie receives funding from the Smithsonian Institution. Even groups that weathered the catastrophe, such as mammals, fishes and flowering plants, suffered severe population declines and ...

The end-Permian mass extinction was the deadliest event in Earth’s history. Also called the Great Dying, it is thought to have nearly wiped out all life on Earth 252 million years ago. Yet, earlier ...

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