If you liked this story, share it with other people. Formed millions of years ago in the Indian Ocean by a process independent of tectonic collision, Indonesia’s Enggano Island is now home to many ...

Animal and bird species found only on a single island should still be common within that island. This is the finding of a new model developed by researchers from the University of Leeds and Imperial ...

Many islands are formed by millions of years of successive volcanic eruptions in the ocean. Often times these eruptions create stunning and exotic islands such as Tahiti, Fiji, and Hawaii. Every year, ...

Little-known Sulawesi may be the world’s most strangely shaped island: with four large peninsulas jutting outward, the island could either resemble a mangled lower-case ‘k’ or an upside-down emaciated ...

Tufts of cotton clouds drift across blue skies; plunging cliffs and majestic Norfolk pines hug the rugged coastline. Sixteen hundred kilometres of ocean separate Australia from Norfolk Island.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. We’re taught that evolution is all about “survival of the fittest.” But that’s not always the case. In fact, ...

Greatest concerns for endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart and glossy black-cockatoo after third of island burned Ecologists have grave concerns for the future of unique and endangered wildlife on ...

A new article describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved some 43 million years ago during the Eocene. Islands have been vital ...