Woolly mammoths would have lived another 4,000 years in some parts of Eurasia if it weren’t for human hunters, according to a new study. Australian experts performed computer simulations of woolly mammoth interactions with humans and climates based on evidence from fossils and ancient DNA. The findings suggested a warming climate forced them further north into smaller … Read more
North America’s megafauna — giant animals such as woolly mammoths and bear-sized beavers — were driven to extinction by a near-glacial climate, a study claimed. Researchers from Germany used a new statistical method to estimate the changing population sizes of the giant animals from the radiocarbon record. They found that megafauna numbers responded to climatic shifts, and they … Read more
The number of monarch butterflies wintering on the California coast has plummeted to a record low, according to entomologists. Fewer than 2,000 monarchs were recorded in November and December, compared to 200,000 barely three years ago. In the 1980s, the monarch butterflies migrating south to groves from Marin County to San Diego was estimated at … Read more
Even though it smells like rotting flesh, the so-called ‘Corpse Flower’ is a huge draw at botanical gardens all over the world. In addition to its shockingly putrid scent, it can grow over ten feet tall and only blooms every few years—and even then just for a few days. But the flower, which originates in … Read more
Mammals such as primates that have big brains tend to be less abundant and at higher risk of extinction than mammals with smaller brains, a new study claims. UK researchers used statistical models to test different scenarios for hundreds of different mammal species. Their findings suggest that species with larger relative brain sizes have higher … Read more
More farming to feed world’s growing population will threaten thousands of species with extinction unless we eat less meat, study claims More than 20,000 species will lose part of their current habitats a study found The animals that are set to suffer include elephants, lions, zebras and baboons Projected mean habitat losses were greatest in … Read more
Extinction may not be on the cards for the Tasmanian devil after all, with the deadly cancer that was devastating the population now showing signs of petering out. Numbers of the black, antipodean marsupials — which grow to the size of a small dog — have fallen by 80 per cent since the disease was … Read more
Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists have tonight tried to stop the ‘disastrous’ Covid cycle lane in High Street Kensington from being torn up by the Tory council after it was inundated with ‘hundreds’ of complaints. The radical Left-wing demonstrators, who infamously disrupted the distribution of British newspapers including the Mail, the Times and the Sun in … Read more
Cycling activists descended on an exclusive west London shopping street today to protest the removal of its hated Covid cycle lanes after the council decided to tear up the ‘disastrous’ scheme following hundreds of complaints. Councillors said the lanes on Kensington High Street would be removed by tomorrow after a huge backlash – with the … Read more
The devastated widow of a British soldier killed by an IRA bomb has said she would give Extinction Rebellion protesters a ‘punch on the nose’ for desecrating the Cenotaph yesterday. Dianne Rose, 74, added she would give veteran Donald Bell – who was injured in the blast in Northern Ireland that killed her husband in … Read more