A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6000 years.

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Alberto Corigliano introduces the ERC Advanced Grant project IMMENSE, which aims to overcome the challenge of developing ...

Dwarfing every living thing around them millions of years ago, Prototaxites have long defied scientific classification ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler Conservation has long wrestled with a deceptively simple question: not whether to act, but where action will matter most. Forest restoration, protected areas, wildlife corridors, ...

How will the public retain confidence in a system that rests on the painstaking articulation of reasoned logic as more and ...

Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people picture biodiversity, they often ...