A leisurely weekend spent by the seaside can create a vision in one’s mind: walking down the beach under the shimmering rays of light reflecting off the waves, and suddenly seeing something strange ...

Two marsupial species vanished from the fossil record 6,000 years ago, then turned up alive in a rainforest that local communities had been quietly protecting for generations.

The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern ...

A recent review of evidence from the past 129,000 years reveals a dramatic story of extinctions, human encounters, and ...

Prehistoric Australia was not the warm, sunlit continent we know today. Between roughly 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during ...

Ancient Crocodile Species That Walked on Land Once Ruled Australia's Lost World ...

Nearly three miles beneath the ocean’s surface exists a world rarely seen by human eyes. Little is known about the abyssal ...

The giant Walnut Whip replaces a traffic cone that usually adorns the late monarch's head.

This post is part of Global Voices’ May 2026 Spotlight series, “Global crisis, local solutions.” This series offers stories ...

Red meat has long occupied a near-mythic place in the story of human evolution. It is often cast as the food that helped make ...

Learn about an innovative new approach using environmental DNA to explore deep-sea locations. The deep sea is vast and mysterious. It makes up approximately two-thirds of the planet. Yet, as of May ...

Hundreds of wild species gained important protections at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES ...