More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...

Aquatic ecosystems show worrying trends where wetland bird populations have fallen by 8–97 percent in key habitats.

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, ...

Plants and animals across sub-Saharan Africa have declined by 24 percent since preindustrial days. Large mammals like forest ...

An ancient human species, Homo floresiensis, once thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores, but their sudden disappearance ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a British-born zoologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his life to ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after ...

This documentary explores the rise and disappearance of two extraordinary extinct elephants, Platybelodon and Deinotherium. It examines how each species developed unique tusk structures that shaped ...

Deep beneath the tropical forests of the Yucatán Peninsula lies a vast subterranean domain few people can explore. Accessible by sinkholes known as “cenotes” and potentially stretching across ...