Asia, the world’s largest and most populous continent, features the longest coastline and both the highest and lowest points ...

The focus is set to change when the BBC’s new seven-part blockbuster nature series Asia, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, starts this evening (on BBC One at 18:20, also available on iPlayer).

Zoonoses—diseases that spread from animals to humans—began to gain prevalence some 6,500 years ago with the rise of animal husbandry, a new study suggests ...

This is the first of 20 Mongabay stories highlighting Almost Famous Asian Animals — all to be published by the end of 2016. You can find the complete Almost Famous series here. Try to name Asia ...

The Asiatic lion once roamed vast swaths of the Middle East and Asia, but indiscriminate hunting and killing to protect livestock led to their mass slaughter. By the late 1800s, as few as 10 of ...

Asia, the world’s largest and most populous continent, features the longest coastline and both the highest and lowest points on Earth. It spans countries like China, India, Japan, and parts of ...