Last year, the Java stingaree became the first fish to be declared extinct as a result of human actions. Could there soon be ...

There’s no denying that some species are impressive thanks to certain body parts (behave). From the long neck of a giraffe to ...

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, but how much more do you know about the ...

What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red, yellow or orange bill? A major new study has uncovered the ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

About 80 percent of all animals on the planet are insects, and the Enns Entomology Museum at MU has one of the most important ...

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 ...

(In one essay he contemplated religion as a kind of “mind virus”.) Dr Dawkins earned the sobriquet “Darwin’s rottweiler”—a nod to Thomas Huxley, an early defender of the naturalist’s ...

A Bermudian scientist who dedicated most of her life to studying fossils has been celebrated after she stepped down from the Natural History Museum in London. Jill Darrell took centre stage when ...

The mixed-reality Visions of Nature experience at London’s Natural History Museum aims to present clime issues in a more ...

Now, walking through the backrooms of the Nairobi National Museum, surrounded by million-year-old specimens her family collected, in laboratories her father built, next to an auditorium with her ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Cyclone Tracy. Followed categories will be added to My News. The City of Darwin and Northern Territory Government will host a commemorative event on Saturday ...