A team of researchers have demonstrated how moss can act as a forensic ‘fingerprint’ when confirming details about a crime ...

Does a cuckoo know it's a cuckoo? The answer is more difficult than you might think, explains Richard Pallardy ...

According to the Snow Leopard Trust, there are between 3,500 and 7,000 snow leopards left in the wild. An estimated 200 to ...

Stubbornly, I feel spring markers are for spring. Instead, I focus on winter markers.” Kate Bradbury on embracing the joys of ...

In a horrific but easy-to-visualise scene, the ants grab its limbs and pull backwards, while the insect struggles in the opposite direction, where more hidden jaws are waiting to grab it. The ants ...

Examples abound of animals appearing to predict natural disasters, with anecdotes dating back as far as Ancient Greece, when ...

Tree planting rarely has a 100 per cent success rate first time around, Nicholson points out. When his company planted ...

Today, the Arabian Peninsula has no wild cheetahs, but the mummified bodies found near the city of Arar offer hope for the ...

Forget festivals and sporting events, the Bracken Cave bat colony is considered to be the largest gathering of mammals on ...

The answer to how the woolly rhinoceros became extinct may have just been found in the stomach of one of its fiercest ...

The moose is a charismatic animal that inhabits the circumpolar boreal, temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of the northern ...

In rare cases, soft tissue and even dinosaur skin has been found to survive the fossilisation process. Rapid burial of these ...