A mysterious rock painting in South Africa’s cave could be the first-ever artwork of an animal that disappeared 250 million years ago. The San people’s “Horned Serpent Panel” features a strange ...

Simulations of Australopithecus hominins’ anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing ...

In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the outgoing Colombian president argues the war on drugs has failed and fires back ...

The team is looking for volunteer collaborators within the car industry who could spare the funds to finance a prototype repellant device.

These moguls tell us their AI systems — which they admit they don’t fully understand — are beneficial. However, experts say it’s a coin toss whether humans will be enslaved by their creations.

The world's first 'de-extinction' company says it's on track to bring back the woolly mammoth from the dead in just a few years. US biotech firm Colossal Biosciences has pieced together more than 50 ...

In 2026, two tiny marsupials that were long written off as extinct were found alive in one of Earth's most remote and biodiverse regions.

Road traffic accidents are thought to kill up to a third of hedgehogs in local populations, one study found. This number could be greatly reduced by fitting cars with ultrasound repellers to deter ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

That can’t be said for the beguiling Under the Eye of the Big Bird, written by Hiromi Kawakami and translated by Asa Yoneda. This is a more tender – yet still haunting – look at our end. We enter a ...

Thheiba and Fidda were among the zoo’s last Barbary lionesses and played a key role in conservation. The sisters lived side-by-side their entire lives and helped support a lion subspecies now extinct ...

Decades after its release into the wild, a super-ageing, bone-crunching vulture called Balthazar reveals a major conservation ...