In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Inaccessible Island, part of the remote Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, offers a rare glimpse into untouched nature. Known for its rugged cliffs and unyielding terrain, this ...

On a tiny volcanic island in Bermuda, a two-man conservation outfit is using DIY tech to help a ‘Lazarus’ bird species make a ...

Cavendish bananas are under threat from a fungus that has wiped out other varieties. The island of Tenerife may have the conditions to protect them.

Entombed at the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, teeth from the rhino fossils were analyzed by researchers at the ...

Photo by Justin Hu via Unsplash On a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, a rare species once declared extinct in the wild has been rediscovered. Partula tohiveana, or the Moorean viviparous ...

A trail camera on Clarke Island recorded an echidna for the first time in decades. Photos show the egg-laying mammal once feared locally extinct. Photo from Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre via WWF ...

Rising from the waves, sculpted by fire and wind: the Aeolian Islands defy imagination. This volcanic archipelago north of ...

remote Nishinoshima island in the Ogasawara island chain is still showing signs of volcanic activity. A survey from an Asahi Shimbun aircraft on Nov. 3 confirmed white fumarolic gas rising from ...

evenfh/Shutterstock.com The Pinta Giant tortoise, or Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii), became extinct in 2012, with the death of Lonesome George, the last of his kind. They were native ...

More than 500 years ago, in AD 1452, the island of Kuwae experienced a massive catastrophe known as the Tombuk eruption. The eruption created a massive caldera (a depression formed by a volcanic ...