Errol Fuller’s new book is a visual lament. “Lost Animals” is a handsome but sad record of animals that existed for millennia — long enough for photography to be invented — but have now disappeared ...

Extinction watches might become a trend if life on Earth maintains its current course. According to a July 2014 article in Scientific American, humans have eliminated 1,000 species from the planet ...

Rarely have humans ruminated so much about so little, as in the case of the dodo. As amateur naturalist Fuller points out in this precise, charming and beautifully illustrated volume, of all extinct ...

"My own view is also that the various new laws being introduced in the western world to prevent ivory trafficking are for the most part useless and entirely miss the point. They are just sops to the ...

There’s a photograph in Errol Fuller’s latest book of a pair of odd-looking critters with stripes on their backs and fox-like faces. The animals are thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, carnivorous ...

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Dodo: From extinction to icon by Errol Fuller, Collins, £16.99, ISBN 0007145721 Reviewed by Fred Pearce Errol Fuller’s books on extinct birds are not proper narratives so much as glorious ...

A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or ...