The world’s rarest cat may yet avoid extinction – by a whisker. Around 200 Iberian lynx were thought to survive in just two locations in southern Spain. Now a small number of cats have been discovered ...

Powered by glowing, super-heated gas as it swirls into black holes a billion times more massive than the sun, quasars are the most brilliantly luminous objects in the universe. But a new study from ...

A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire leopard genomes discovered that the Cape Floristic Region’s leopards are not ...

Scientists have found evidence that some gut bacterial populations can spread rapidly between people and across continents, suggesting the microbiome may be more transmissible than previously thought.