Stone tools discovered decades ago in a Polish cave have been reexamined using modern methods, revealing an age far older than previously believed. Dated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, the ...

Today in “Please Be A.I.,” Liam Neeson narrated an anti-vaccination documentary called ‌ Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of ...

This video explores five species once declared extinct that were later found alive in surprising locations. It follows the ...

The golden toad was declared extinct in 2004, the victim of climate change, scientists said in 2022. But Trevor Ritland ...

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Academy members will be asked to pick from 201 documentary features, 86 international features and 35 animated features. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards The documentary feature and ...

Oscars Best Documentary Feature Commentary (Updated Nov. 26, 2025): As the documentary race comes into sharper focus with DOC NYC ahead, and the Critics Choice Documentary Awards just announced, it’s ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature have announced the discovery and description of an extinct rhinoceros from the Canadian High Arctic. The nearly complete fossil skeleton of the new ...

Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses. “They’ve been the ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out ...

Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but not anymore. These crucial coral species are now “functionally extinct” in the region after ...