Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

In the age of endless scrolling, these clips seem almost ordinary. A penguin walking away from its colony across the Antarctic ice. A baby monkey clut.

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

Researchers came across a tiny long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider living in the rainforest in the Indonesian province of West Papua. Find out more here.

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history, begins in 1886 when getting a ...

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history begins in 1886, when getting a message across Montana was a life-threatening task.

Before the removal of 10 animals, the clan at the zoo consisted of 48 individuals, the zoo announced on Monday. Zurich Zoo ...

Long before the Vikings, the first humans ventured into the frozen wilderness of Scandinavia as the Ice Age retreated. This episode explores how early hunter gatherers, their dogs, and their tools ...

In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton – how much the ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...