Nov. 15, 2024 — Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300.
More than 99% of all living species have gone extinct. Whole time periods are buried in layers of rock and sediment and, with it, libraries of information about Earth’s history and what came before us ...
The aurochs fell extinct on these shores some 3,000 years ... profile example is the Knepp Estate in West Sussex, where large grazing animals such as longhorn cattle are transforming hundreds ...