Extinction

biodiversity

Estimates of how many species we are losing per hour vary, but authoritative assessments point to a crisis many times faster than the historical background rate. This explainer...

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Environment

Extinct species in Ohio reflect regional ecological shifts driven primarily by habitat loss, land conversion, and unregulated hunting during European settlement. While the state...

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Science & Nature

Dire wolves are not alive today. They went extinct at the end of the last ice age, roughly 9,000 to 10,000 years ago, as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna decline. No verif...

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