After more than a decade of fieldwork and exhaustive laboratory work, a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) have uncovered the ...

The researchers discovered a hidden world of life among the roots of Chile's ancient alerce trees. Here's why that's important.

And as David Attenborough narrates in footage from the BBC TV series Planet Earth filmed in Mauritania, “swarms join up with ...

For comparison, the coastline of the USA’s Washington state measures 400 kilometres (250 miles). The cave is 118 metres (379 ...

Even elite human sprinters take around five to seven seconds to reach their maximum running speed. Crocs, on the other hand, ...

The Bermuda Triangle, in the North Atlantic Ocean, has become infamous for the planes and ships that are said to have ...

Researchers have documented “an entire community” of animals travelling with whale sharks – the world’s biggest fish.

From glossy black bears and quill-covered porcupines to elegant red-tailed hawks and stripy chipmunks, Oregon is home to some ...

The aptly named Cave of Crystals, in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried around 300 metres underground and contains giant gypsum crystals up to 11 metres long. Some are big enough to walk on and are so ...

Curious victims are sucked up by the current created when the predator opens its enormous mouth, which can accommodate prey ...

If every face tells a story, this one might have a sorry tale to relate about the time a golf ball landed in its pond. But there’s been no tragic sporting accident here. The enormous swollen forehead ...

Why would vestigial arms need such biceps’? Some palaeontologists now find themselves drawn back to the theory that the limbs were involved in reproduction, perhaps as subtle signalling devices to ...