Historic fossil finds have pointed towards North America and Europe as the waters of origin for large size in lamniform ...

Siffre’s story started in 1939, in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast of France – but it wasn’t until 1962 that the events that ...

Their adventures took them vast distances, regularly traveling over 50 kilometers (31 miles) from their home to the river ...

Across time and cultures, facial mutilation has been a preferred form of punishment for various crimes, but why?

I n a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

It seems like every time we try to estimate when the volcano might get there, the rate of inflation changes, making our ...

A breakthrough new Alzheimer’s disease treatment is stopping neurodegeneration in its tracks, even before symptoms appear.

The crack created by this activity could then have become something of a wind tunnel for sand-laden gusts sweeping across the ...

Antarctica is known for being a rather inhospitable place, what with its extreme cold, violent winds, and low levels of water – it is technically a desert. Much of continent also sits at high altitude ...

Belgica antarctica is a tiny little thing – just about the length of a grain of rice. It doesn’t bite, living instead on moss ...

“The genetic data is fascinating,” said Anders Bergström, a lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences in the University ...