A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...

A new study suggests that for the last 74,000 years, malaria shaped where early humans could live in Africa—fragmenting populations and influencing patterns of exchange long before recorded history.

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Compiled by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and published in Frontier Economics, it is thought that sequencing all species from ...

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

You have the power to make a real impact on the planet. Generation Hope is an annual programme led in collaboration with young climate and nature leaders from around the world. It’s all about ...

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The spiders commonly known as false widow spiders belong to the scientific group Steatoda. Because of their general resemblance to the much more notorious black widow spiders (Latrodectus), they can ...

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As the cave was over 100 kilometres from the coast when the pendant was made 15,000 years ago, it suggests that ancient humans were travelling long distances, perhaps as they followed migrating ...