One-hundred-and-five years ago, held only by thumb and forefinger on outstretched arms, a smelly and disintegrating bird skin was...

John Steinbeck famously wrote in his book Log from the Sea of Cortez that “an ocean without its unknown monsters would be like a...

In 2012, the Smithsonian Magazine published a list of the world’s five most mysterious birds. Among those on the list...

The thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus was a large, heavily built, carnivorous marsupial with short, dense, tan coloured fur and incomplete, dark...