Some animals matter so much to their ecosystems that losing them is like removing the keystone from an arch—the entire ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

It's that time of year again – and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on – when we recap the many ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

Great whites are one of more than 20 Mediterranean shark species protected under international law, meaning it is illegal to ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

Scientists map how climate-driven extreme heat and human land use together push almost 8,000 vertebrate species toward extinction.

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The floor of the Cueva de Mono, a cave in the Dominican Republic, is a gruesome graveyard. For thousands of years, it served as the dining room for a massive family of now-extinct owls called Tyto ...

Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong along with two new woylie subspecies—remarkable finds made bittersweet by ...