Tropical ecosystems rely on the infrastructure provided by termites. These insects supply plants with vital nutrients by ...

Two hundred years ago this place was the centre of the universe,” Shaun Newton told me, gesturing out of his office window.

Loss of species including mammoths, saber-tooth cats and direwolves has had long-lasting impacts and could tell us how ...

Earth's food webs suffer when giant animals go extinct, even 10,000 years later.

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

The disappearance of giant animals, including woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats, continues to have a fundamental impact ...

A new study shows how the loss of large animals thousands of years ago still shapes ecosystems today and may affect their ...

A new global study shows that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago permanently altered predator-prey networks, with impacts still visible today. Researchers ...

In addition to habitat loss and illegal hunting, the jaguar (Panthera onca) faces another threat that increases its risk of extinction in the South ...

New research shows that the mass extinction of giant Ice Age animals continues to influence modern ecosystems, with the most severe impacts seen in the Americas. Scientists analysed predator-prey data ...

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

A new study reveals how their disappearance "fundamentally reshaped" food webs for the species that remain today.