3+ hour ago  (315+ words) How did the distant ancestors of mammals survive the greatest mass extinction of life in the history of our planet, millions of years before the one that wiped out the dinosaurs?" The surprising answer is that they laid eggs, scientists…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (550+ words) Jonathan the tortoise arrived on St Helena in the 1880s and lived through the turn of two centuries " until an alleged crypto scammer killed him off in an April Fool's prank. The world's oldest tortoise and land animal at an estimated…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (243+ words) Captured on CCTV, it was a crime that took seconds. An empty street in the dead of night. Head bobbing with two bin bags clutched in tiny hands and chucked with a flourish on to the pavement. Then, the culprit…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (198+ words) With little televisual action while the coelacanth rested, and rested, we saw quite a bit of not terribly thrilling footage of experts in the pitch black 160 metres deep in the ocean off the coast of Indonesia, eating their lunch out…...