Humans may have taken over the planet with our amazing intellect, but that doesn't mean the animal kingdom is filled with ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

Since the 1960s, people have been searching for the mythical creature known as Bigfoot. Most cryptozoologists would place him in the forested expanses of the Pacific Northwest of America, perhaps even ...

generally corresponds with the first evidence of tool-making by the genus Homo from the family Hominidae. As a result, it could be deduced that, at sites like the dried-up lake bed in the Iraqi ...

A mandible of Kenyapithecus africanus, with many of the teeth preserved, has been found at Kathwanga, Rusinga Island, Kenya. Previously the lower dentition of this species was unknown—except by ...

Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

The country of Indonesia spans a distance larger than that between Los Angeles and New York City, encompassing roughly 18,000 islands. This cradle of biodiversity contains countless endangered species ...

Mountain gorillas are the global superstars among the world’s great apes. They rose to fame following their memorable encounter with David Attenborough, vice-president of Fauna & Flora since 1979, ...