The white-throated rail is a chicken-sized bird, indigenous to Madagascar in the south-western Indian Ocean

Researchers have uncovered evidence of well armed and substantial flying reptiles from historically important, but overlooked, British Jurassic fossils

A team of scientists from the University of Portsmouth has developed new scientific tests to better understand the effects of pollution on wildlife behavior

A pioneering new project trials fingerprinting techniques to battle pangolin poaching

Biodiversity—the essential variety of life forms on Earth—continues to decline in every region of the world, significantly reducing nature’s capacity to contribute to people’s well-being

Researchers call for the need to consider low dose and mixture toxicity testing in risk assessment of chemicals entering our aquatic environments

Model could pave the way for better, more efficient, and reliable tests of drugs to treat brain diseases

Hundreds of scientific studies over two decades have told us that apes are clever—just not as clever as us

Scientists can predict with confidence what the effect of the Japanese disaster has had and will continue to have thanks to a legacy of data on radioactive pollution in the environment after decades of nuclear testing worldwide

Using atom probe tomography, researchers were able to accurately date such events in baddeleyite, a relatively common but small uranium-bearing mineral in planetary igneous rocks

Limpet teeth might be the strongest natural material known to man, a new study has found.