It had been decades since an echidna had been spotted on the island of Lungtalanana, northeast of Tasmania. Not much was ...

Recent bushfires in Queensland and NSW have also impacted koala habitats - but authorities are yet to determine the scale of the loss. "It's hard to quantify with koalas because there are so many in ...

A rare beetle might be extinct in England after a survey failed to confirm any sightings, a charity said. Conservation charity Buglife asked for the public's help last year to find evidence of the ...

Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (critically endangered, possibly extinct in the wild), has been seen for more than a decade.

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

Mar. 11, 2025 — For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about ...

"Welcome to the Black Triangle," said paleobiologist Cindy Looy as our van slowed to a stop in the gentle hills of the northern Czech Republic, a few miles from the German and Polish borders.

Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time ...

km. The exceptional density of paintings and engravings, and the presence of many prehistoric vestiges, are remarkable testimonies to Prehistory. From 10,000 BC to the first centuries of our era, ...

But it might happen a little differently than you think. When a baby koala — or a joey — is born, it is likely to come into contact with its mother's bodily fluids. However, it can also happen when ...

Cave bears, a prehistoric bear species whose remains are typically found in caves, are believed to have been herbivorous, according to Mosesian. “Even though they have these huge fangs,” Mosesian said ...