It’s fortunate for us there are no giant meat-eating birds, but you must admit it would be rather cool, at least if their ...

From historic artefacts and contemporary art to interactive exhibitions, London’s best museums have something for every ...

From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.

Researchers revealed only 1.5% of people who have claimed to see Nessie over the past 100 years have reported hoops or humps ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

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Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Scientists have declared a subspecies of giraffe endangered. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the conservation status of wild animals and plants ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Although we have many problems with critically endangered species today, it used to be a lot worse. Before the times of ...