The presence of other dinosaur footprints among the ceratopsians has led researchers to believe that these trackways could ...

The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

Soft tissues are preserved along one side of the metre-long flipper where it’s believed to have been pressed into the sediments of the seafloor shortly after the animal’s death. This provided an ...

The crest of Mirasaura was made of 16 feather-like structures that together formed a fan longer than the animal’s torso. Out of the numerous fossils unearthed, the longest crest is 15 centimetres long ...

This year we’re celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of our world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

Are humans made of stardust? Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up our bodies. Planetary scientist and stardust ...

Our Trainee Teacher Days give student teachers an on-site, hands-on understanding of what makes a school trip both educational and unforgettable.

But in some regions of the deep sea the silty bottom is strewn with what, at first glance, look like potato-sized rocks. First discovered in the nineteenth century, these strange objects are known as ...

It’s been more than 20 years since the last confirmed sighting of a wild baiji. These river dolphins are the first cetaceans – the mammal group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises – to have ...

The world's largest bacterium has been discovered amongst the mangroves of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Measuring over a centimetre long, Thiomargarita magnifica is over 5000 times bigger than ...