10+ hour, 52+ min ago  (1458+ words) Our guide to the endangered leatherback turtle most frequently seen in British waters. Of the seven sea turtle species in the world, five have been recorded in the waters around Britain, including, leatherback, loggerhead, kemp's ridley, green, and hawksbill. Leatherback…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1764+ words) The Atlantic sturgeon was driven to extinction in Europe by the middle of the 20th century. In Sweden's G'ta River, a pioneering rewilding initiative is helping this ancient fish to reclaim its ancestral home Credit: Jon A Ju'rez In the G'ta…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (641+ words) The new species of "scimitar-crested" Spinosaurus is the first of its kind found in more than a century. For the first time since the early 20th century, indisputable evidence of a new species of'Spinosaurus has been found. This latest discovery, made…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (660+ words) Researchers have long thought that Greenland sharks have poor vision but a new study reveals the opposite. You'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a mouldy sausage that got lost under the sofa for several years, but there's more to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (228+ words) Are sharks really older than trees? Yes " and a whole lot more, explains Will Newton As a group, sharks emerged roughly 450 million years ago in the Late Ordovician, back when Earth was covered by a vast ocean known as Panthalassa....

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1341+ words) Meet the bizarre prehistoric animals that once ruled the world millions of years ago - and they're not dinosaurs Dinosaurs dominated life on Earth for 180 million years, between the Triassic and the Cretaceous periods. But the prehistoric animals that came before…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (388+ words) The Iguanodon-like dinosaur had a covering of hollow spikes, according to new research. A new Chinese dinosaur shows that at least some members of the Iguanodon'group " long assumed to be entirely scaly-skinned " had short spikes across part of the body....

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (444+ words) The world's largest palaeoburrow is located in the Amazon Rainforest and is so long it'd take you roughly 20 minutes to walk from one end to the other" Across Brazil and parts of Argentina, scientists have discovered dozens of strange tunnels…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (381+ words) You might have an idea of what a fossil looks like " but these fossils are slightly different (and will change the way you think about ancient wildlife and civilisations!) Fossils can teach us extraordinary amounts about prehistoric civilisations, wildlife and…...

1+ mon, 17+ hour ago  (314+ words) A dinosaur footprint discovered by a student in 1958 has been formally documented. More than 60 years ago, Bruce Runnegar was visiting Petrie's Quarry in Brisbane with school friends when he discovered a dinosaur footprint. Measuring 18.5cm in length and set in a…...