12 July 2023
A handful of “rules” govern how evolution shapes life on Earth, from island gigantism to colours shifting with latitude – and offer clues about how animals and plants might adapt to a warming world
12 April 2023
Bacteria, fungi and other microbes, which are vital to life on Earth, were long thought impervious to threats endangering larger lifeforms. Now biologists are warning of a microbial extinction event
6 January 2023
Fossils show plants were producing higher levels of sunscreen chemicals to protect against higher ultraviolet light levels at the end of the Permian period
3 August 2022
The challenge of reintroducing near-extinct species to countries that have been affected by conflict adds complexity to Millie Kerr's rewilding story
22 March 2022
Scientists estimate there are just 100 to 1000 breeding pairs of New Caledonia storm petrels, which have been identified on the South Pacific Ocean
19 October 2021
A controversial fossil site claimed to preserve a scene of destruction from the day the dinosaurs died seems to show the even happened in spring there and led to a turtle being impaled on a branch
29 June 2021
The diversity of non-avian dinosaur species may have been declining 10 million years before they vanished in a mass extinction 66 million years ago
28 June 2021
We thought Gould’s mouse went extinct 125 years ago – but a small population has now been identified on an island off Australia’s west coast
3 June 2021
Sharks living in the open ocean experienced a previously unknown mass extinction event about 19 million years ago that wiped out nearly 90 per cent of the predators
25 May 2021
A comparison between geological records of asteroid impacts and mass extinctions suggests that only space rocks that strike an area rich in a certain mineral have a cataclysmic effect on life, no matter their size
