But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

World Monuments Watch says Maine's historic lighthouses are threatened by climate change and intensifying coastal storms, like the ones that battered some of the iconic beacons in January 2024 ...

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Here, we explore 15 recently extinct animals, serving as a somber reminder of the delicate balance of our ecosystems. Spix’s macaw. Image by Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Famously known as the ...

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish ...

Then, they went extinct around 94 million years ago. In 2010, paleontologist James Crampton discovered a partial ichthyosaur skeleton while working on Coverham Station in the Clarence Valley ...

I think the last time I read an actual, original Garfield comic was in 1998. Since then, my experience of the character has been one long litany of Gar-memes and in particular, Gorefield memes. For ...

They evolved separately around 250 million years ago, possibly from a crocodile-like ancestor, to resemble fish and modern dolphins. Then, they went extinct around 94 million years ago. In 2010, ...

Feral cats kill more than 1.5 billion native mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs each year. (University of South Australia) Red imported fire ants could cost Australia $22 billion by the 2040s ...

Three dozen endangered Florida panthers died this year, the most in nearly a decade, according to the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. It's the most panther deaths since 2016 ...

A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf of the endangered species to be born at the zoo in the last five years, officials said.