Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named ...

In the search for life on Mars, scientists have discovered more about the planet’s explosive past. The future Mars rover ...

Tyrannosaurs once roamed what is now the southern coast of England. Fossil teeth uncovered in East Sussex have provided the first evidence of these dinosaurs in this region from the Early Cretaceous ...

Delve in to the wonderful world of Birds and discover their incredible behaviour through photos from our Wildlife ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

There are a number of species of beetle in the UK that will attack natural fibres such as wool, silk, fur, feathers and skins. It is the immature larvae forms that cause the damage, rather than the ...

We are describing and documenting patterns of copepod species to determine how their diversity evolves. Copepods are one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth. They are dominant in the community ...

Bertie Gregory (UK) tracks a pod of orcas as they prepare to wave wash a Weddell seal. This pod belongs to an ecotype known as B1 - the pack ice orcas -identified by their characteristically large, ...

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Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...

Between May and June 2020, over 300 elephants suddenly died in northwestern Botswana. New research lays the blame for these deaths on a toxic algal bloom exacerbated by climate change. Climate ...