This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! From birds with no wings to giant fowl that were once ...

Footage shows prehistoric-looking shoebill fixing gaze on tourists.

Twelve non-dinosaur rulers show Earth’s old power: armored fish, giant insects, sky titans, sea kings, and saber teeth across ...

It has been declared extinct, but is considered a living fossil and is related to the California redwood and giant sequoia, diverging around 150 million years ago. The dawn redwood is resilient and ...

“Chinstraps are declining globally,” Martinez said. “Models show that they might get extinct before the end of the century at ...

Every journey is a quest of sorts, though few travellers have an inkling of what it is they’re questing for – unless they set ...

The amazing thing about the animal kingdom is that there’s always something new to discover. Many animals have been around ...

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for decades. Saving this species may now be an impossibility. The only living ...

On the announcement of a UK contract for a massive wind farm in the outer Firth of Forth, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring asks if its ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

There's more to Peru than Machu Picchu, Cusco and the Nazca Lines. Indeed, the Andean city and region of Arequipa reveal a ...

There are only a few places in the world where you can see whale sharks. The Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia is one of ...