In southeast Queensland, roughly 250 kilometers from Brisbane, lies the tiny town of Murgon. Located on Wakka Wakka Country, ...

A national park in Kenya says it's confirmed the birth of an endangered eastern black rhino calf. You can see the baby in the ...

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

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass ...

Animal Crossing Nintendo's surprise Animal Crossing: New Horizons update isn't winning over everyone: "Isn't this just more Happy Home Paradise?" Animal Crossing Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets a ...

People love a party. But as populous as our species is, the headcounts at our gatherings don’t match those of other species. The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage in Prayagraj, India, drew more than ...

The animal kingdom is full of surprises, and stories of survival against all odds are among the most compelling. Throughout history, human actions and natural changes have driven many species to the ...

CINCINNATI — Heather Farrington sorts butterfly skins, placing them in envelopes and then into multiple boxes. A co-worker teases her. “Weren’t you doing that last week, too?” Farrington laughs.

Researchers in the Andes of Argentina discovered one of the oldest known dinosaurs as a species new to science. Lucas Fiorelli (CRILAR-CONICET), Martín Hechenleitner (CRILAR-CONICET), and Léa ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as ...

Researchers have discovered enormous prehistoric hunting traps near the border of Slovenia and Italy. These stone megastructures were likely built at least as far back as the Late Bronze Age, and were ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...