A new species, named Threordatoth chasmatos, has now been added to the list. Dr Luke Meade, the lead author of research ...

Tyrannosaurs once roamed what is now the southern coast of England. Fossil teeth uncovered in East Sussex have provided the first evidence of these dinosaurs in this region from the Early Cretaceous ...

A new study published by researchers at London’s Natural History Museum and Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven has reinforced ...

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

The only first certain signs that ancient humans were living together came in 2010, when researchers published the complete ...

Our own species and Neanderthals split from a common ancestor at least 400,000 years ago. Neanderthals were well adapted to ...

“The People’s Choice Award allows members of the public from across the globe to join the jury and vote for their winning ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

The grave of a young man in Morocco is providing astonishing insights into human culture 15,000 years ago. Buried alongside ...

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 ...

Whales are accomplished divers. The deepest whale dive recorded so far was made by a Cuvier's beaked whale. A 2014 study used satellite-linked tags to follow the dives of eight beaked whales off the ...

Colour: it is a method of finding a mate, a cue that danger is near, a vital clue in the search for food. Meet some of the brightest and boldest organisms created by evolution. The natural world is an ...