Rangers have released 158 juvenile hybrid tortoises on Floreana to restore the island's ecosystem. View on euronews ...

Rapa Nui, 2,200 miles west of the mainland, is as rugged as it is remote — and an exploration offers blustery hikes, volcanic craters and villages of rock-hewn moai.

A giant tortoise species believed extinct for more than a century has been formally confirmed alive. Genetic analysis ...

Declared extinct for over a century, a lone giant tortoise has resurfaced on a remote volcanic island, raising urgent questions about survival, hidden populations, and whether a lost lineage can truly ...

According to Discover Wildlife, the fossils were found in the Moa Eggshell Cave on the North Island. They're between 1 million and 1.5 million years old, and they contain 12 species of extinct birds ...

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile ...

Authorities are probing the cause of a deadly landslide in northern New Zealand in late January, but experts have pushed back against claims online that the removal of trees by the city council and ...

By March 3, U.S. forces controlled all three airfields on the island, and on March 26 the last Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima were wiped out. Only 200 of the original 22,000 Japanese defenders were ...

Paradise Season 2 episode also sheds disturbing new light on the apocalyptic disaster for which the residents of the bunker are bracing. And that’s just a volcanic disaster. The scientist who ...

The all-out Daily Double wagers gave one contestant a runaway win.

Lava Beds National Monument in Tulelake, California, is home to over 800 lava tube caves that’ll make you feel like you’ve accidentally stumbled onto the set of a science fiction movie, except ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had "resurrected" the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that had been extinct for 10,000 years. Within two days ...