An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. On a remote ...

The not-so-quiet quintet came from separate owners but had the same vulgar vocabulary.

A New History From Their Dinosaur Origins To the Present. I will never forget my first dinosaur wing. I was a college s ...

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and ...

In “The Story of Birds,” the familiar creatures in our skies and backyards are reintroduced as the last surviving dinosaurs.

Someone took the trouble of restomodding a Plymouth Superbird, and went all in with a 600-hp crate HEMI; the car has less than one mile on the clock ...

Birds are living dinosaurs whose ancestors include T. rex and giant penguins. Understanding their past can help us imagine ...

A new study reveals how a remarkable group of plants on the Galápagos Islands developed their diverse leaf shapes—offering ...

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever.

Cats are among the most efficient predators in the animal kingdom, shaped by millions of years of evolution to hunt with ...

As early as around the 6th century AD/CE, humans have been trying to conquer each other’s minds and tactics in a game that ...

When Charles Darwin first stepped onto the volcanic shores of the Galapagos, he saw a laboratory of life. But even Darwin ...