5+ hour, 27+ min ago  (312+ words) Two books have been returned to a library almost 50 years past their due date after being spotted in a charity shop 60 miles away. The books, which were found in Beverley earlier this week, were due to be returned to Leeds…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (587+ words) Archaeologists have described their race against time to document rare 2,000-year-old footprints uncovered on the Angus coast before the winter storms which had revealed them also wiped them away. The human and animal prints were discovered by dog walkers Jenny…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (87+ words) How much attention have you been paying to what has happened in the world over the past seven days? This week, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested, Prince William spoke about understanding his own emotions, and an Amazon delivery van got stuck…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (688+ words) "I love lichens. I really do." Which is fortunate, as April Windle is currently peering down a magnifying lens on a muddy bank in the middle of a slightly damp New Forest. "I've been lucky enough to spend nearly a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (970+ words) "The wall was bright green. It was the most iridescent green you'd ever seen, and yet the microbes were living in complete darkness," says Barton, professor of geological sciences at the University of Alabama. Beneath the deep rocky canyons of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1063+ words) Once driven to the city's edges, Bangkok's giant monitor lizards are now thriving in parks and canals " and becoming an unexpected part of the visitor experience. Shortly before dawn in one of Bangkok's largest inner-city green spaces, there is a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (415+ words) A 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism which once loomed over north-east Scotland has been added to the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS). The example of Prototaxites was discovered in a sedimentary deposit near the village of Rhynie…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (415+ words) A 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism which once loomed over north-east Scotland has been added to the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS). The example of Prototaxites was discovered in a sedimentary deposit near the village of Rhynie…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (627+ words) The East Yorkshire coast attracts thousands of tourists each year but the beaches and cliffs that make up the landscape are becoming a growing attraction for people seeking more than a day at the seaside. On the fastest eroding coastline…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (486+ words) Scientists have made a world-first discovery after extracting woolly rhinoceros DNA from the stomach of a wolf dating back to the Ice Age. The 14,400-year-old find offers rare insight into the final days of woolly rhinos, finding that they likely…...