Scientists working on the Arctic archipelago’s largest island, Spitsbergen, uncovered a 249-million-year-old bonebed on the ...

Research published in the journal Comptes Rendus Palevol has identified that the vertebrae belong to a new species named ...

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...

Travel through 4.6 billion years of our planet's history and help protect its future. Snap a selfie with a piece of Mars, touch a fragment of the Moon and lay your hands on a meteorite older than our ...

Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful. More importantly, some have colourful and elaborate patterns that serve as a defence against hungry predators. There are many butterfly and moth ...

Acclaimed wildlife cameraman and presenter Hamza Yassin has brought nature into our homes through his work on a variety of ...

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against an irritant such as a parasite entering their shell or damage to their fragile body. The oyster or mussel slowly ...

Some dinosaurs could reach enormous sizes. In fact, the very biggest would tower over any land animal alive today! Get to know some of the largest dinosaurs to have ever walked the planet. Dinosaur ...

A large spider, but with a very small greyish body and long thin legs. They prefer the warm and constant temperatures of our homes, garages and sheds, and are rarely found outdoors as they cannot ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our planet, from climate and evolution to diets and diseases. There may be more to these prehistoric ...

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

The images ‘Cat Amongst the Flamingos’ and ‘Ocean Lion’, included in the sixty-first Wildlife Photographer of the Year, have been withdrawn from our competition, including our exhibition in South ...