Three hundred million years ago, the largest insect ever known to humankind hunted in fern jungles and boasted an enormous wingspan of nearly 2.5 feet. Different from modern dragonflies in its size ...

The Dinoponera gigantea (4 cm) is the largest living ant species, found in the Amazon. The all-time largest was the extinct ...

Spare a thought for poor Derek Mooney, who finds himself is all on his own in the studio this evening. He is feeling a bit sorry for himself, which is why he opens the programme with the mournful ...

Champagne Telmont releases a lightweight magnum Champagne bottle at 1,600g, available non-exclusively to help reduce carbon ...

Throughout my life, the Amazon had distinct dry and rainy seasons. But recently, the weather has gone completely crazy. It ...

Makoshika State Park in Glendive might be Montana’s best-kept secret – a sprawling badlands paradise that somehow flies under the radar while its more famous cousins get all the attention. The name ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

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