Twenty-four new species of crustaceans have been discovered as part of a project to name 1,000 deep-sea animals by 2030 ...

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...

As the cave was over 100 kilometres from the coast when the pendant was made 15,000 years ago, it suggests that ancient ...

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The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

Crisps and mash owe their existence to a series of precise events that took place nine million years ago. That is the startling finding of a new study that has found that potatoes are the result of an ...

Wasps have generally earned themselves a bad reputation. But despite their occasional aggression, these insects play an important role in the ecosystem. There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in ...

England’s “green and pleasant land” is set to be transformed in the next 60 years as rising temperatures and other human ...

In nature, species will sometimes form unexpectedly close bonds and work to their mutual benefit. Symbiotic relationships are the close associations formed between pairs of species. They come in a ...

Scientists can't study living and breathing examples of prehistoric dinosaurs, so what's the best alternative? Dinosaur researcher Prof Paul Barrett fills us in. The premise of the Jurassic Park film ...

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