Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...

The great hornbill in Bangladesh is facing an existential crisis under the threefold pressure of deforestation, habitat destruction and international wildlife trafficking networks ...

Fossils smaller than a fingertip are reshaping what scientists thought they knew about how primate relatives spread after the asteroid impact.

By Yolanda du Toit In 2012, Arrie van Deventer received an urgent phone call from a neighbour about a rhino calf that was ...

Blindness itself might become, at least in certain cases, partially reversible. This potential future stems from one of the most intriguing developments in regenerative medicine: epigenetic ...

A colony of beavers reintroduced to Ealing has helped stop a railway station from flooding, according to the project behind their return, which is also celebrating the birth of more kits. The Ealing ...

I am standing on its muddy shores, watching, with some apprehension, a 6-and-a-half-foot alligator. Its pewter eyes blend in ...

Three beaver kits have been born in a forest as part of a conservation programme. A family of two adults and four kits were ...

Dianne Curry Peck, 59, is charged with murder after allegedly leaving her newborn naked in the snow in January 1985, ...