The waters off the glittering coastlines of Britain's Caribbean territories have long been a mystery. But now scientists on the first expedition beyond the islands' shallows have discovered an ...
The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...
By manipulating animals to do wonderful things, we may become numb to their real wonder.
The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.
Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...
The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, until now known only through fossils, have been rediscovered.
Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.
Source: Dr Sam Robinson Scientists studying venomous insects made an unexpected discovery inside a simple lunchbox container ...
A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.
Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...
The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.
These 20 animals are so strange they look like science fiction creations, but they’re completely real. Nature is far more bizarre than you think.
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