Two critically endangered Sumatran rhinos are pregnant at an Indonesian sanctuary, a rare success for a species reduced to a ...

After returning from the brink of extinction in the 1980s, the Norfolk Island morepork owl is at risk of dying out again due to inbreeding. Experts say the last hope is to the diversify the population ...

For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale ...

The Trump administration put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a ...

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The island of Tristan da Cunha (population 224) has no airport. Its seaport, which can only handle small boats, is a week's journey from any other human settlement. So how do doctors get to an urgent ...

Sex between cousins is illegal in most of the US, while incest between closer family members is illegal in the entire domestic UK. Hours away, however, there's a British Overseas Territory that may ...

What happens when a group of mutineers disappears to one of the most isolated islands on Earth? This video uncovers the dark and chaotic history behind Pitcairn Island, where betrayal, survival, and ...

One thing above all others the British Navy was slow to forgive: mutiny. Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island where ...