The night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is a small green-and-yellow bird species long considered near-mythical across ...

Colleen Ballinger's Apology Song 'Heading To No.1' ...

A world without insects and birds is unimaginable. Every terrestrial ecosystem would collapse without insects and countless ...

The bird is of cultural significance to the Māori people of New Zealand, and its numbers are starting to increase again.

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the ...

New research based on fragments discovered at the Neumark-Nord site in Germany suggests Neanderthals may have transformed the ...

New Zealand's kakapo have laid 256 eggs, and around 100 of them have hatched, providing a bright spot in a decades-long ...

Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...

The book contains the first authoritative account of Bangladesh’s wildlife, written by Guy Mountfort, a renowned ornithologist, conservationist and founding trustee of the present-day World Wildlife F ...

Freshwater mussels are the kind most people don't even know exist. They live for decades—more than a century in some cases.

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

As the zoo celebrates its 200th birthday, photographer David Levene captures the people keeping their (sometimes very dangerous) patients healthy and happy. Introduction: Patrick Barkham ...