Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named ...

A previously unknown rock type at the future landing site of the European Space Agency’s new Mars rover is revealing more about the red planet. The rock is believed to have come from an ancient ...

Our species mated with the Neanderthals much later than thought. New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens ...

Tyrannosaurs once roamed what is now the southern coast of England. Fossil teeth uncovered in East Sussex have provided the first evidence of these dinosaurs in this region from the Early Cretaceous ...

The fossilised lizard was found in Cromhall Quarry, southwest England Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile The fossilised lizard was found in Cromhall Quarry, southwest ...

A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...

Study argues that by the time of H. sapiens expansion, differentiation between the two species had occurred to the point where they were distinguishable species. Advocating the former, Chris Stringer ...

Over 230 million years ago, long-necked plesiosaurs and dolphin-shaped ichthyosaurs dominated the oceans, from open water to the shallow coasts. But within 30 million years, many of these marine ...

We know that our own ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, but evidence suggests that we were still distinct species. By using this as a case study, researchers have probed what it means to be a ...

Please note that the Biodiversity Trends Explorer is no longer live. The BTE data was generated in 2021. Because we want to provide the latest and most accurate models available, we will be removing ...

In recognition of the high standard of entries, 25 extra images were selected by the Natural History Museum and put to the public vote. Daniel was mesmerised by the movements of the starlings as they ...

A person, company or country is carbon neutral if they balance the carbon dioxide they release into the atmosphere through their everyday activities with the amount they absorb or remove from the ...