In just the last decade, the U.S. has officially declared five species extinct, marking a tragic loss for biodiversity. Once ...

In this regard, identifying the extinct plant species was especially challenging. "To identify the species that no longer existed, we had to use a trick," Ulrike Herzschuh explains.

“Everyone knows that the woolly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no-one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age,” says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred ...