Standing up to two meters tall and weighing over 600 kilograms, this is the largest land mammal to return to Britain in centuries. Its sheer size allows it to knock down trees, tear bark from trunks, ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

The saola is a real and documented animal, but it remains a mystery to most experts and researchers. A forest-dwelling bovid ...

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

Sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean are facing an extinction crisis. Almost half of the region’s 270 known species ...

The data shows a clear shift towards more 'human' names. The most common dog names of 2025 were Poppy, Luna, and Willow.

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a ...

A Disney animator's desk in Orange County Regional History Center's Drawing Magic exhibition The frigid finale of Animal ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.

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