Today, there are 18 different species of penguin. Their size varies as much as their habitats. There was once a penguin that stood above the rest. Its massive size allowed it to survive in harsh ...

When most people imagine scientists discovering new species, they probably still picture an expedition into the unknown. A ...

In 1543, a Polish astronomer named Nicolaus Copernicus published a book that shattered the foundations of Western ...

The marine reserve network is the first new set of marine reserves to be established in Aotearoa in more than a decade.

Two chicks hatched this spring at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, the Zoo's conservation science campus in ...

If the name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio meant little to you, it probably does now. "DMTF", "NUEVAYOL" and "El Apagón" may ...

In March 2017, I sat down and wrote a long essay, not for publication but to sort out my thinking, about how to better ...

Fashion often drives the market to the detriment of wildlife. The craze for beaver hats in the early 19th century created the Fur Trade in the United States and Canada. It was a wild time of mountain ...

One of the most devastating extinctions in Earth's history is best known for what didn't die—dinosaurs. But the end-Triassic ...

The extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists have long suspected that the same catastrophe also transformed life in the ...

There are several movies with dragons in them, and these five are the best in the genre for fantast movie fans.

A fossil whale skull with a shark tooth still embedded inside suggests that large sharks once hunted or scavenged in the ...