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A new study shows the woolly rhino was not the inbred, genetically doomed species scientists had thought.

Scientists have long wondered if the wooly mammoth went extinct due to high levels of inbreeding.

Beeches are ‘non-native’ to Scotland because they got there less than 7,000 years ago. No, really.

A 20-year-old experiment is testing whether filling the Arctic tundra with animals could keep carbon trapped in the ground.

Millions of years of on-off ice ages have left behind a mix of different sediments.

Paleoecologist Emily Lindsey on the wildfires that led to mass extinction during California’s Ice Age. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.

In the wake of the collapse of Malta’s spectacular arch, which UK coastal features are under threat from the unrelenting forces of wind and water?

The islands’ rocks record the first stage of a huge freeze that would eventually cover the Earth in ice.

Stonehenge has captured popular imagination for generations.

A previously unknown canyon has been discovered in Greenland, hidden beneath the ice. It is at least 750 kilometres long. To put that in perspective, imagine a ten kilometre wide gorge, up to 800 metres…