Earth’s rotation is slowly slowing, scientists say, meaning days are getting longer, though the change takes millions of ...

Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden world 3.6 kilometres beneath the Greenland Sea, where methane mounds and life thrive in complete darkness. The discovery could transform climate science and ...

Barakat’s photograph quietly underscores that reality. The scene feels extraterrestrial, not because it is unfamiliar, but ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even ...

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

Bringing his father's passion for antiques restoration into the modern era, managing director of Cirencester-based Restorate, ...

Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden feather structures that contradict old theories on dinosaur flight. Scientists are now re-evaluating how and when animals first took to the skies.

In ancient ecosystems, small birds darted and called above fern canopies and along lake margins. Their fossils now rest encased in stone, awaiting study with modern analytical methods. A recent ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and even a perfectly-preserved body doesn’t tell the whole story of how that ...