The specimen might be our greatest opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding how the bird behaved, how it lived, how it ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

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

These enormous moths are nature’s masterpieces. Learn which species are the largest and what makes each one so extraordinary.

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

The world’s largest network of environmental groups approved the exploration of genetic engineering tools to aid the ...

Current strategies prioritise three species of cultural and ecological importance: the djabbo (northern quoll), djebuyh ...

In the forests of South Africa lurks an arachnophobe’s nightmare – Nephila kowaci, the largest web-spinning spider in the world. The females of this newly discovered species have bodies that are 3-4 ...

A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age.

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...