T he end of the Eocene (~33.9 million years ago) was a rough time for many species. It was a period marked by global cooling and drops in sea level, and in Eurasia, these global environmental impacts ...

But unthinkably, African lion numbers have plummeted by over 40% in the last three generations, due to loss of living space and conflict with people. Lions are mammals and the most sociable of all big ...

Alexis Kriel, the co-chair of the African Pangolin Working Group (APWG), has one word to describe pangolins: “magical”. The elusive animals — the world’s only scaly mammal — have a way ...