As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Flying and marine animals are relatively free to follow these shifting niches. Birds and butterflies are two examples. New ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

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New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction, with 24% of species in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of fish, crab and ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

The species winters exclusively in the Bering Sea and is among the world's most enigmatic wildfowl, its moulting and wintering grounds previously a longstanding mystery. It is now understood that ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...