Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators aren’t responsible don’t stack up.

A midland painted turtle. Unlike its land cousin the box turtle, painted turtles do not have a hinged bottom shell that closes when the head is pulled in. © Jim ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

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The right lower canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont from the Tremembé Formation, Brazil. Scale bars – 5 mm in (A-E) and 20 mm in (H). Credit: Rangel et al It’s a small, weathered ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about the endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart, revealing that the tiny marsupial is not just a ground dweller – as previously thought – but also climbs trees ...

We often assume that bigger is better, but nature constantly proves this wrong. The world’s smallest mammals are miniature marvels, many weighing less than a paperclip and capable of fitting right in ...

The first Europeans to encounter bare-nosed wombats likened them to bears—and the comparison stuck. The species’ scientific name, Vombatus ursinus, combines the Latin word for bear with one from the ...