Experts finally reveal the truth behind the mythical hybrid beast, said to be a cross between a shaggy black dog and a monkey ...

Plus “We Had a Hunch” and “The Proving Ground.” ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

Australia declares extinction of the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), the country's last native shrew species.

Scholastic UK has acquired Renegades, a new middle-grade series by bestselling author Erin Hunter.

A cat with a murky history appeared at author Deborah Frenkel’s door a few years ago, inspiring her book, The Truck Cat, ...

Perhaps this is one reason why we have long been fascinated by the idea that some of us look more like one animal or another: Giacomo della Porta, in the 16th century, produced a book on human ...

It was a completely ordinary day, in an entirely extraordinary place, when a young Jane Goodall walked through the forest, notebook in hand, to watch over a community of chimpanzees — exactly as she ...

The writers – Trent Dalton, Nikki Gemmell, Charlotte Wood, Tom Keneally and Liane Moriarty – were selected by royal correspondent and author ­Juliet Rieden to take part in the initiative. Each writer ...

In 2017, Blaskowsky and his wife, who then lived in Seattle, were searching for Japanese-language children’s books to read to their baby. The first installment in the Sato series—there are four—opens ...

Children’s book author and illustrator Sophie Blackall was working on the drawings for her new book, “Stella & Marigold: Mermaids and Mix-Ups,” when she had an idea. Her collaborator, Annie Barrows, ...