In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

The word “de-extinction” is not just itself untrue. It seeks to diminish the inconvenient truth of the biodiversity crisis, says this expert.

New research led by Swansea University will help scientists predict where and when animals will move, a task which is becoming more urgent, given the current rapid pace of global change.

Imagine looking at a majestic blue whale gliding effortlessly through the ocean, the largest animal on Earth. Now, picture ...

Imagine a world where the largest land mammal roams the earth, majestic and powerful, yet unable to perform one of the simplest actions we often take for granted: jumping. Yes, elephants can’t jump, ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Conservationists are rethinking strategies to build climate resilience in nature as rising temperatures threaten species and ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...

Sweden’s Great Moose Migration has become a slow TV phenomenon. The 24-hour livestream shows the animals’ annual migration for 20 days on Sweden’s national broadcaster SVT. On the show – which began ...

Speed is suddenly a scientific priority. All told, scientists have described almost two million plant and animal species, and the current rate is about 18,000 new ones a year. But that’s not ...