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For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Wondering about the most dangerous birds on Earth? We've compiled this list of the Top 20 scariest birds — some that have ...

Scientists discovered a crocodile relative that is 200 million years old and had two legs. The diversity of reptiles during the Triassic period is shown by this discovery, which is long before ...

Children are natural small-c conservatives, so it is no wonder that the culture created for them is often derivative and formulaic. But ‘Hoppers’, a new cartoon from Pixar, is not quite the Manichean, ...

This quirky Arizona museum turns dinosaur poop into an unforgettable attraction with oddball charm, surprising exhibits, and one of the strangest stops around.

The comeback of the kakapo is one of the world’s greatest conservation success stories. But seeing one in the flesh is still ...

To mark 20 years of the BBC TV series Planet Earth, we look at some of the filming firsts it captured – including a ‘zombie’ fungus ...

There’s a place in Colorado that looks like someone took a giant paintbrush and went absolutely bonkers on the landscape. The Paint Mines Interpretive Park sits out near Calhan, and it’s one of those ...

Decades after their release, these games continue to inspire modern titles.