Bones can reveal a lot about the animals we once shared the planet with, the ones humans never got to meet and even a lot about the human race we are as yet unaware of, says Dick Warner.

Humans lived in Ireland 2,500 years earlier than was previously thought.

Wild boar may not be that wild after all, with DNA analysis showing that boars in Ireland are mostly pig.

The future of the Killarney red deer is under threat from inbreeding and mating with other species and there is a need for a new management plan, a researcher has claimed.

FOR many years there’s been a debate, sometimes quite heated, about the origins of the red deer herd in the National Park outside Killarney.