You must have seen these adorable penguins in the animated films Madagascar or Happy Feet. Playful, clever, and impossible to forget. But in the real world, their distant cousin in Antarctica is ...

Riffs! I like riffs. I like it when songs have lots of riffs. I like when one riff stops and another one suddenly starts. The Oxnard, California heavy hardcore band Torena has riffs for days. They’ve ...

The teaser has the heroic pups crashing into a tropical island facing extinction and performing more daring dino rescues — as ...

Scientists appear to be successfully resurrecting a dying art form: the rare vocalizations of one of Australia's most threatened songbirds, the regent honeyeater. The Guardian rec ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...

Regent honeyeaters were once abundant in the forests of southeastern Australia, congregating in enormous, eye-catching flocks. Today, the black-and-yellow songbirds are critically endangered, with ...

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WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Environmental group Extinction Rebellion said on Wednesday it is under federal U.S. investigation and that some of its members have been visited by FBI agents, including ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

One of California’s most iconic animals is in trouble. “Based on our very initial count, it’s looking like this year is either going to be the second- or third-lowest on record, unfortunately,” Scott ...

Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025. Habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, and hunting are the primary drivers ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...