Extinction

From everlasting lightning storms to magnificent bioluminescence, these classic episodes will delight and intrigue you.

Dedicated scientists are going to extremes to save this rare plant from extinction.

What's it like to "very probably" witness extinction?

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange stories.

Scientists were thrilled to find the Wallace's giant bee, missing for four decades. Things did not go as they'd hoped.

Fish fossils may put "the single worst day for multicellular life on Earth" on the calendar.

Scientists and schoolchildren worked together to bring the tequila fish back from extinction.

There are far fewer northern bettongs than previously thought, but work is underway to save the species.

The bean-sized snail has persevered despite hundreds of related species going extinct in recent decades.

A researcher's quest to understand a mysterious mass extinction leads to cud-chewing culprits.

The third episode of TED’s Far Flung podcast was 66 million years in the making.

And why the scars left by meteoritic impacts tell us about life, the universe, and everything.

Just another day in Hawaiian conservation.

After years of drought and habitat loss, “It’s one more nail in their coffin.”

Tiny gastropods, huge undertaking.

A "plant studbook" might help botanic gardens bring rare breeds back from the brink.