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Elephant protector and fossil hunter Richard Leakey leaves outsized legacy in Kenya

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2022

Warmer, oxygen-poor waters threaten world’s ‘most heavily exploited’ fish

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jan 2022

Grasslands claim their ground in Madagascar

Edward Carver 9 Jun 2020

‘Extremely rare’ fossil tooth of hamster-sized monkey found in Peru

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2019

Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019

A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire

Peter Moon 6 Sep 2018

Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to ’empty landscapes’

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2015

Bison-sized rodent may have used teeth like elephant tusks

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2015

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

Blame humans: new research proves people killed off New Zealand’s giant birds

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2014

Giant turtle-devouring duck-billed platypus discovered

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2013

Nutrient deficiency in Amazon rainforest linked to megafauna extinction

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2013

Giant prehistoric freshwater turtle discovered

Mongabay.com 18 May 2012

Humans killed off magnificent Australian megafauna, flipping rainforest into savannah

Jeremy Hance 27 Mar 2012

Meet the dinosaur that looks like a crow

Jeremy Hance 8 Mar 2012

Carbon emissions paving way for mass extinction in oceans

Jeremy Hance 5 Mar 2012

When giant coyotes roamed the Earth

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2012

Paleontologists reconstruct extinct, “elegant” penguin

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2012

Jurassic insect sings again

Jeremy Hance 6 Feb 2012

Interview with conservation legend, Richard Leakey

Mark Szotek 28 Nov 2011

Scientists discover giant species of crocodile; luckily it is extinct

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2011

Kepunahan massal keenam di dunia masih bisa dicegah

Jeremy Hance 3 Apr 2011

World’s sixth mass extinction still preventable

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2011

King of dinosaurs was a hunter, not a scavenger

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2011

Picture: scientists identify first known single-fingered dinosaur

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2011

Extinct giant stork towered over ‘hobbits’ on Flores

Jeremy Hance 7 Dec 2010

Amazon biodiversity older than believed

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2010

Rainforests thrived in warmer conditions in the past, yet study requires “caution”

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2010

Monster turtle killed off by man

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2010

Prehistoric snake gobbled-up dinosaur babies

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2010

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