The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of ...

The crest of Mirasaura was made of 16 feather-like structures that together formed a fan longer than the animal’s torso. Out of the numerous fossils unearthed, the longest crest is 15 centimetres long ...

This year we’re celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of our world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

The presence of other dinosaur footprints among the ceratopsians has led researchers to believe that these trackways could show the first evidence of mixed-species herding behaviour in dinosaurs. This ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

Soft tissues are preserved along one side of the metre-long flipper where it’s believed to have been pressed into the sediments of the seafloor shortly after the animal’s death. This provided an ...

Are humans made of stardust? Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up our bodies. Planetary scientist and stardust ...

Our Trainee Teacher Days give student teachers an on-site, hands-on understanding of what makes a school trip both educational and unforgettable.

Over the last two years we’ve been transforming our five-acre gardens into a haven for people and wildlife – all part of our work across the UK to support urban nature recovery. Our scientists are ...

Tracking the diversity of turtles over 230 million years is not only revealing how they responded to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, but could also give us clues as to how they might respond ...

The world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, could disappear in the next century as rising sea levels threaten to submerge its habitat.

A Madagascan hawkmoth, whose existence was predicted by Darwin and Wallace, has now been recognised as a new species. Known as Wallace's sphinx moth, the moth is famous for its enormous tongue - the ...