A mere 300,000 years ago, the world's largest primate still roamed the forests of southern China, how would that massive ape ...

After more than 30 years of being missing, the Blyde Rondavel flat gecko (Afroedura rondavelica) reappears in South Africa.

For almost 200 years, no one knew where the last living great auks were. Using DNA testing, one of them was found in ...

A fossil found in southern China has revealed something scientists rarely get to see: the incredibly well-preserved brain and ...

Curitiba, Brazil used to be forests, wetlands, fields and streams before it was developed over the last half-century. Gilberto Jacob via Unsplash As new species are discovered around the world, others ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of ...

Australia doesn’t have any “kill sites” or other incontrovertible hard evidence that people were killing and butchering the ...

A decades-old theory that First Nations peoples hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction might not stack up, according to ...