16+ hour, 17+ min ago  (803+ words) Think of sharks and the most common images that spring to mind will likely be of dangerous predators hunting prey, accompanied by ominous music. However, a town in the leafy suburbs of Glasgow has its own connection to the famous…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (284+ words) Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy. The footprints - some of which are up to 40cm (15in) in diameter - are aligned in parallel rows, and many show clear traces of toes…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (638+ words) What appeared to be tentacles washed up on an Aberdeenshire beach are the remains of a deep-sea creature called a seven-arm octopus, say experts. A local member of the public spotted the arms with rows of suckers at Forvie National…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (24+ words) Ice Age animals have close modern relatives that reveal how they lived and behaved. How scientists re-created ice age animals for new documentary...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (563+ words) Humans do it, monkeys do it, even polar bears do it. And now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of kissing. Their study suggests that the mouth-on-mouth kiss evolved more than 21 million years ago, and was something that the common…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (401+ words) Florida's natural springs are more than scenic wonders - they are portals to a prehistoric world hidden beneath turquoise and deep-blue waters. Among the most striking sites are Devil's Den and Silver Springs, where divers descend into freshwater sinkholes to uncover…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (654+ words) Finding dinosaur fossils on the island of Ireland is harder than finding a "needle in a haystack", the curator of geology at National Museums Northern Ireland has said. But the only two ever to have been found in the proverbial…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (252+ words) Legendary singer Sir Tom Jones has given his seal of approval to the naming of a woolly mammoth in his honour. More than 18,000 visitors took part in a vote to name the huge 3D model, with "Tom Bones" coming out on…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (544+ words) Scientists have unearthed Australia's oldest known crocodile eggshells which may have belonged to "drop crocs" - creatures that climbed trees to hunt prey below. The discovery of the 55-million-year-old eggshells was made in a sheep farmer's backyard in Queensland with the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (250+ words) In 2012, a shepherd uncovered a bone belonging to a new species of dinosaur on a ranch in Patagonia, in Argentina. A team from the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio found more than 150 bones, belonging to six skeletons. The Patagotitan, a…...