The largest proportion of risk was focused in the Indian Ocean, where around 22% of whale strike hotspots were found. This is ...

In recognition of the high standard of entries, 25 extra images were selected by the Natural History Museum and put to the public vote. Early in the morning, Mark watched as these lionesses groomed ...

A team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are experts at collecting snake venom. But spitting cobras are a double threat. Venom has a complex evolutionary history and the reason some cobras ...

One of the key features of the dinosaurs is that they walked upright. Rather than having their legs out to the side, like in ...

The slender-billed curlew was a species of wading bird last officially seen three decades ago. Despite the occasional ...

A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.

Possible chemical compositions of icy moon brine oceans include salt-water mixtures of Na-K-Mg-Ca-Cl-SO 4-CO 3-H 2 O [1]. While direct probing of the ocean is very difficult, surface observations are ...

Evoking atmosphere and a sense of place - with the habitat as a major element of the image -to convey how an animal is an integral part of its environment. The First Nations people of British Columbia ...

Rising temperatures are pushing many species to the brink, alongside disease, pollution and unsustainable fishing.

The fossil bird, which has been named Navaornis hestiae, lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, ...

The Natural History Museum has today answered the billion-year-long question - how does a Tyrannosaurus rex wear a Christmas ...

Within days it transpired that Giuliana had recorded an invasive species not seen in the UK for almost two decades and in the ...