Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across west Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously spotted feline appears to be doing rather well -- surprisingly, given the ...

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature ’s photo team.

The Kosyakino quarry was well-known for its collection of ancient fossils, and held the jaw remains of an unknown bear ...

Across the world, humans have told stories of creatures so strange and powerful they blur the line between myth and reality.

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

Check out the category winners from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, and see the 2024 winners too.

South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever was announced as the Natural History Museum London's Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025.

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age. These enormous structures ...

Highlighting the best wildlife photography across land and sea, see some of the winning photos from this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. South African photographer Wim van den Heever ...

It took ten years for Wim van den Heever to capture his perfect shot. After noticing paw prints and scat in an abandoned mining town along the coast of southern Namibia, he saw an opportunity to snap ...

A chilling discovery at Spain's Atapuerca archaeological site has revealed new evidence of systematic cannibalism among our earliest European ancestors. Researchers have uncovered an 850,000-year-old ...

An image of a rare hyena standing in front of an abandoned building in a former diamond mining town in Namibia has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award. Shot by South African ...