A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off as gone forever have reappeared in camera traps, village markets and remote ...

Five bird species that hadn't been seen, heard or genetically detected in over a decade were documented by researchers and birdwatchers in 2025-and the story behind how they were found is as ...

A group of scientists has released the first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been documented in more than a decade, with the help of Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Their ...