Extinct Animals

A species becomes extinct when its death rate is continually greater than its birthrate. Learn how you can help here.

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The house cat -that cute, furry feline beloved the world over is also one of the world's most destructive predators, killing for kicks and hunting rare species into extinction. Cats thrive because people protect them -- but should they?

A study says that if we want to prevent extinction, we're protecting the wrong areas of the country. Can't we do both?

Most people grow up hearing about how a particular animal is an endangered species. Many times researching the animal brings up a small infograph listing it as endangered, threatened, vulnerable.

In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.

The revival of an extinct species is no longer a fantasy. But is it a good idea?

Scientists have some ambitious projects underway to bring extinct species back to life, including the long-gone woolly mammoth to the passenger pigeon.

Wikipedia's information about extinct animals.

Just the last 40 years we've lost an incredible variety of species, like these amazing creatures. See pictures of animals that have disappeared recently.

Here we have listed 10 animals that are now extinct, find out the reasons why.

Jurassic Park has a lot to answer for. It made the idea seem so simple. Take the DNA from a microscopic drop of dinosaur blood, preserved for 65 million years in the gut of a mosquito trapped in fossilised amber. Carry out a bit of jiggery-pokery involving chaos theory and Jeff Goldblum. Insert the dino DNA into the yolk of a crocodile's egg and leave to incubate. Soon you'll have a thriving menagerie of once-extinct beasts roaming the jungles of someone's private theme park.

Bringing extinct animals back to life is really happening - and it's going to be very, very cool. Unless it ends up being very, very bad.

Tusk is a small, dynamic organisation with twenty-two years experience initiating and funding conservation, community development and environmental education programmes across Africa.

Western Watersheds Project and our Co-Plaintiffs seek to close special-interest loopholes in range-wide plans.