Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions ...
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Berkeley - A University of California, Berkeley, paleobiologist and his colleagues warn that the future of the Earth&#39;s mammals could be as dire as it was between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, when a combination of climate change and human pressure resulted
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A rise in the temperature of the world's oceans is often accompanied by mass extinctions, according to a new statistical study of fossil records.
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Science & environment: Climate change has wreaked havoc on UK wildlife and will cause further disruption, says National Trust
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DNA analysis of bison fossils suggests climate and environmental change, not human hunters, triggered herd declines and the extinction of mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and other large mammals in Siberia and North America.
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Almost a third of all primates face extinction because of damage to their habitats, a report warns.
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Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced
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OSLO, Norway  - Ideal for an Ice Age, white fur  used as camouflage by animals from polar bears to Arctic foxes  may be going out of fashion because of global warming.
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The Earth's climate is out of balance and warming as a result of human activities, a leading science body warns.
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An international research team claims that it was major climate change, not hunting that led to major bison extinction. Moving in huge herds, more than 20 million bison roamed the American West before white men arrived.
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A sharp rise in global temperatures about 50 million years ago may have been responsible for the evolution of bats, Science magazine reports.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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Being the biggest dog may pay off at feeding time, but species that grow too large may be more vulnerable to extinction, new research suggests. Over 50 million years a succession of large carnivores evolved in North America, diversified, and then died out.
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Apes, gazelles, crocodiles, dolphins, vultures and parakeets are all in danger as the global extinction crisis escalates.
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Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced by widespread
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THE number of wild animals across the world has plummeted by 40 per cent in the past 30 years because of changes in the way humans are living.
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Whenever the world's tropical seas warm several degrees, Earth has experienced mass extinctions over millions of years, according to a first-of-its-kind statistical study of fossil records.