Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:01
About 12,800 years ago when the Earth was warming and emerging from the last ice age, a dramatic and anomalous event occurred that abruptly reversed climatic conditions back to near-glacial state.
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 15:12
A new research has challenged the claim that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna in a proposed "extinction window" between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, and pointed the finger at climate change.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 16:31
Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in Tanzania and Zambia.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 10:17
The cheetah, the world`s fastest land animal, survived mass extinction during the last ice age 10,000 years ago.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 31, 2013, 20:01
Human colonisation of the remote Pacific islands may have spawned the global extinction of nearly 1,000 species of birds, according to a new analysis of fossil data.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 17:22
The arrival of human beings in the Pacific including New Zealand led to a rapid mass extinction of about 10 percent of the world`s bird species, a new study has revealed.
Last Updated: Friday, March 22, 2013, 10:49
Scientists believe that a set of gigantic volcanic might have eruptions resulted in the disappearance of half of earth`s species 200 million years ago.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 16:00
Climate change could see dozens of lizard species becoming extinct within the next 50 years, a new research has warned.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 17:31
Almost half of Africa`s wild lion populations may decline to near extinction over the next 20-40 years unless urgent conservation measures are undertaken, a new report has warned.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 16:32
Nearly half of Africa`s wild lion populations may decline to near extinction over the next 20-40 years without urgent conservation measures, a report has said.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 11:34
Sharks need to be better protected or many species could face possible extinction, as nearly 100 million of them are killed every year, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Friday, February 15, 2013, 16:38
London: A fifth of the world`s reptiles are estimated to be threatened with extinction, scientists have warned.
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