When Dutch sailors first landed on the uninhabited Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in the late 16th century, the dodo’s ...

Conor W. O'Brien's introduces his new book The Living and The Dead - Tales of Loss and Rebirth from Irish Nature, celebrating the extensive efforts being undertaken to revitalise lost species across ...

The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife by Tim Birkhead (Bloomsbury, 2025). ISBN: 9781399415743. Hbk, £20.

"The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger--the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of ...

New research, based on fossils discovered in Tanzania and Zambia, broadens our understanding of the Permian ecosystem before the Great Dying. These finds, including saber-toothed gorgonopsians and ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas? Nah. Instead, this week marks the return of TV’s friendliest competition series, “The Great British Baking Show” (or, as it is called in the U.K., ...

Summer is drawing to a close, back-to-school season is here, and it’s the final sprint toward 2026. Cue “The Great Lock In of 2025.” In mid-August, social media started buzzing with posts about “The ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The White House is reportedly considering a plan to pay Palestinians $5,000 to relocate for 10 years while the Gaza Strip is transformed into the “Riviera of the Middle East” envisioned by President ...

A former Great British Bake Off star has claimed that producers would deliberately 'bait' contestants behind the scenes in a bid to capture their most vulnerable moments on camera. Ruby Tandoh, 33, ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

The Great British Bake Off has returned for a brand-new series as a new batch of bakers ready themselves to take on the tent. As the summer nights begin to fade, it's time to welcome autumn into our ...