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The 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil found in Brazil. Image courtesy of Anderson Lepeco.

World’s oldest ant fossil found in Brazil, dating back 113 million years

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2025

Ancient ocean water found in Himalayas could offer insights about evolution

Niladry Sarkar 22 Nov 2023

Recreation of a wooly rhino made from a preserved baby wooly rhino discovered in Siberia. Photo credit: Albert Protopopov

Why did the woolly rhino go extinct?

Carolina Cuellar Colmenares 30 Nov 2020

Meet Biomuseo: the world’s first biodiversity museum

Alexander Montoro 12 Mar 2015

Bison-sized rodent may have used teeth like elephant tusks

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2015

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

New prehistoric animal named after Johnny Depp due to its ‘scissorhands’

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2013

Humans killed off magnificent Australian megafauna, flipping rainforest into savannah

Jeremy Hance 27 Mar 2012

Russia, South Korea sign agreement to resurrect woolly mammoth

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2012

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