Two species of marsupials thought to have been extinct for the past 6,000 years have been found very much alive on the island ...

As drones and missiles hit Dubai, Doha and other sites across the Gulf, Hannah Ellis Peterson explains what happens next for the region ...

More than 50 years ago, the ariel toucan was reintroduced to Tijuca National Park, the world’s largest urban forest, located ...

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

The species saw its population drop to as low as 33 in 1952 due to overhunting, but after conservation efforts about 1,200 ...

The comeback of the kakapo is one of the world’s greatest conservation success stories. But seeing one in the flesh is still ...

The Central Statistics Office compiles data on the most popular names in Ireland, based on what parents name their newborns in any given year ...

Japan's Environment Ministry removed for the first time the red-crowned crane, also known as the Japanese crane, from its list of threatened species on Tuesday. The ministry's assessment of the bird, ...

If you care about Florida's native turtles, nesting birds, and wild spaces, this story will hit close to home. Nile monitor lizards - powerful, fast-moving carnivores that can grow up to 7 feet long - ...

A frog species known since 1838 may actually be several different species, according to a new genetic study of Southeast Asia’s “fanged frogs.” ...

Coetzee, in the city from which he had emerged, a city that he’d intermittently written about—without revealing much of it—and then left, in 2002. The 86-year-old author’s legacy, I’d been told, ...