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A New Caledonian storm petrel pattering across the sea

Life

Seabird discovered by science this year may be critically endangered

Scientists estimate there are just 100 to 1000 breeding pairs of New Caledonia storm petrels, which have been identified on the South Pacific Ocean

News

turtle

Life

Australia's unusual western swamp turtle is an oddity under threat

News

A brush-tailed bettong jumps

Environment

Endangered bettong reintroduced in Australia after more than a century

News

maleo bird

Life

Endangered maleo bird of Indonesia bouncing back from the brink

News

Endangered possums find refuge in back gardens in Western Australia

Life

Endangered possums find refuge in back gardens in Western Australia

News

The endangered giants that still lurk in the world’s biggest rivers

Life

The endangered giants that still lurk in the world’s biggest rivers

Features

Red panda genes suggest there are actually two different species

Life

Red panda genes suggest there are actually two different species

News

Peruvian frog

Environment

Deadly frog fungus now thrives where we thought it couldn’t survive

News

You probably score worse than monkeys on questions about the world

Humans

You probably score worse than monkeys on questions about the world

News

Sea of Shadows: Film documents demise of the world's smallest porpoise

Life

Sea of Shadows: Film documents demise of the world's smallest porpoise

Decimated by illegal fishing for the totoaba fish, the vaquita is the victim of global organised crime. Can a powerful new documentary improve its chances?

Culture

Life

World’s largest frog builds its own ponds using heavy rocks

News

Life

Meet Kuimba, the French-born gorilla released into Gabon's rainforest

Regulars

Life

There may be just 19 endangered vaquita porpoises left in the world

News

Life

The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth's mass extinctions

Features