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Study identifies species with a long history but short future amid threats

Over the past 4 billion years, lifeforms have evolved into the spectacular array of species that now inhabit the planet. While many species radiated into extensive families of closely related species, others are so unique that they alone embody millions of years of evolutionary history sole representatives of entire lineages of the tree of […]

Mossy frogs and 'prehistoric monsters': inside London Zoo's new reptile house

Mary River turtle: The green-haired oddball that can breathe through its butt for 72 hours

The Mary River turtle has adapted to life underwater after splitting from all other living turtle lineages more than 18 million years ago.

Australian marsupials top the list of world's most threatened and unique animals

Three of the top five animals in a new index grading species on their evolutionary distinctiveness and endangered status are Australian marsupials.

A possum feared extinct is discovered in Papa New Guinea... being cooked on a hungry family's BBQ

The good news: An amateur naturalist went to Papua New Guinea and discovered not one, but two, species feared extinct.

WATCH: New Conservation Strategy Aims at Saving Evolutionarily Distinct Species

Cute Animals Are Overrated. Let's Save the Weird Ones

One million species are at risk of extinction, but a handful of charismatic creatures get all the hype. A new conservation strategy has a different focus.

Aye-aye and possums top list of mammals we should focus on saving

Biologists have come up with an improved method of prioritising conservation efforts based on how unique a species is and how endangered its relatives are

Gharials, most distinctive of crocs, are most in need of protection, study shows

KATHMANDU Something occurred to Phoebe Griffith as she observed gharial and mugger crocodiles in and around Nepal’s Chitwan National Park, she recalls. Both crocodiles live in the same environment, and from the neck down they’re everything one would expect a crocodile to look like. But the similarities end there. “Gharials are critically endangered, they […]

Meet the gharial, the most distinctive croc species that really needs our help

Out of all croc species, this one is possibly the most threatened.