There are two species of seahorse in the British Isles – the short-snouted seahorse and the spiny seahorse. Both species are ...

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

A small dinosaur that once dashed along North American riverbanks has found a new home in London. The new species, named ...

About the Manual of Afrotropical Diptera project The Manual of Afrotropical Diptera provides an up-to-date, well-illustrated, interpretable means for identifying families and genera of two-winged ...

Garden snails and aphids are venomous animals. This is the startling outcome of a new study that argues for a radical shift ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

A spectacular new 360° cinematic experience.Get ready to immerse yourself in the epic tale of people and planet in this new 360° experience, presented by Sir David Attenborough. Watch as the walls and ...

Early pterosaurs loved temperate and humid habitats – and it might explain why their fossils are hard to find today.

Sphenodraco scandentis is a relative of lizards that would have climbed among the trees in ancient Jurassic forests.

The Jurassic is a geological period that began 201.4 million years ago and ended 145 million years ago. It’s part of the Mesozoic Era – the part of our planet’s prehistory known as the age of the ...

By combing the details preserved by both fossils, Victor and a team of scientists concluded that the animal was an extinct species new to science. Sphenodraco scandentis appears to be the earliest ...

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