A prehistoric sea predator had better vision than most of its modern descendants, scientists have discovered. Fossilised eyes of the giant shrimp-like Anomalocaris have been found by palaeontologists ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences report that aftert ten years, introduced tortoises served as ''effective seed dispersers'' for regrowing an endangered tree ...

An 18 month investigation has uncovered UK firms dumping thousands of tonnes of illegal e-waste in west Africa. Instead of recycling old computers, PCs, printers, telephones, mobile phones and stereos ...

Habitat loss is possibly the greatest threat to the natural world. Every living thing needs somewhere to live, find food and reproduce. This is known as its habitat. In order for a species to be ...

Bumblebees, also known as Bombus terristris, are the pollinating cousins of wasps and hornets. They are the number one pollinator for wild growing plants as well as commercial agriculture; you may ...

Plate tectonics has been on the curriculum for a while now. Most people are fairly familiar with the theory; the Earth's crust - or lithosphere - is broken up into different plates which move around ...

A rare and critically-endangered hawksbill, Eretmochelys imbricata, approaches the camera with all four legs, unlike the released individual in Hawaii; Hawksbill ...

In a world of super-fast broadband internet, analogue radio may seem like an old-fashioned way of getting a message across to hundreds of thousands of people. But when you're working in one of the ...

With the recent realisation that mercury can transform itself in the stratosphere, then pollute the atmosphere below, we are finally coming to terms with the enormous extent to which we have (along ...

Garuda has been interpreted in Indonesia as a god or eagle, fighting serpents. It's not known what this Garuda preys upon, but it looks capable of mighty deeds; Above is a male Megalara garuda, also ...

In August 1994, in Queensland, Australia, two horses died of an unknown disease. Their owner also died from the disease several months later. In September 1994 the same disease killed 13 horses and a ...

Forests are seen as one of the great weapons against global warming, acting as they do as carbon stores, but their capacity to act in this way could be reduced as temperatures rise according to a new ...