This dramatic and continued decline in the UK’s wildlife has now put one in six species at risk of being lost from Great ...

New research on fossil footprints preserved high in the Atlas Mountains suggests that dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes lived ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer), the first U.S ...

The Isle of Wight is renowned for dinosaur discoveries. Year after year the fossilised remains of prehistoric animals tumble ...

If all goes to plan, OSIRIS-REx should return to Earth with a record-breaking amount of material from an asteroid dating back ...

New research on the 450-million-year-old Eriptychius suggests it could be a ‘missing link’ in the evolution of the vertebrate ...

The story of the Portland plesiosaur begins not on the beaches of the Dorset island, but instead in one of its schools.

While it's not actually illegal to keep captive cetaceans in the UK, stringent welfare rules have acted as a de facto ban. And so, since 1993, there have been no whales or dolphins, collectively known ...

The Natural History Museum, London’s prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has announced the ...

To peer inside the fossil, the researchers used a device known as a synchrotron which generates intense X-rays. It revealed a combination of different remains in the gut from small crustaceans known ...

Octopuses have blue blood, three hearts and a doughnut-shaped brain. But these aren't even the most unusual things about them! Known for their otherworldly look and remarkable intelligence, octopuses ...

The most famous beetles in the UK are probably ladybirds. But did you know that there are over 4,000 beetle species to spot here? Plenty are easy to identify. Read on to discover 17 of the most ...