Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

Deep within the remote canyons of Wollemi National Park, scientists uncovered a living fossil—a prehistoric tree once believed to have vanished millions of years ago. Thought to be extinct until its ...

But did you know there’s a strange tree that walks like humans, with large “feet” and keeps moving forward? This fascinating tree has roots that grow in a way that allows it to shift from ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Abundant in the past in Nigeria, Epin trees have suffered from deforestation, driving the spice towards extinction. Kimba is a type of fermented locust bean that is used in northern Nigeria to ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. A small team of archaeologists ...