Jobye Germaine

How Many Animals Went Extinct In 2024. And at 5.4 degrees of warming, 29.7% of species could die out. Up to 2.5% of mammals, fish, reptiles, birds and amphibians have already gone extinct, the report says.

Using over 290,000 fossil records covering more than 9,200 genera, the researchers collated a dataset of key traits that may affect resilience to extinction, including. According to the international union for the conservation of nature (iucn) red list, more than 42,000 species are currently threatened with extinction, representing over a quarter of all species assessed by the list.