Eight African penguins hatched at the Maryland Zoo during the recent breeding season, adding to the population of the ...

Vultures are disappearing from Kano not from disease or habitat loss but from a growing trade in their body parts for fortune charms and traditional medicine.

Very recently, I was invited to curate a collective exhibition with a fascinating past (and, hopefully, an even more exciting future). Ceramic Forms presents a dialogue between two islands, Malta and ...

A journey across the Galápagos reveals an archipelago in motion, while record visitor numbers test the world’s greatest living laboratory ...

Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

The Chathams sit roughly 785 kilometers (488 miles) east of mainland New Zealand and have long been a crucible of endemic ...

Where dis the Dodo live and what's it's environment like ? When Dutch sailors first explored the Indian Ocean, they ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

From extinction to rebirth, here’s a breakdown of how the takahē — one of Earth’s rarest birds — came back from an ...

Paleontologists at Chicago's Field Museum have concluded that a cluster of stones lodged in the ancient bird's throat likely ...