Archaeologists are to exhume and analyse human bones found under a prehistoric monument in Pembrokeshire recently identified as the cap on a burial site.

Crawling with tube worms and crabs, the hydrothermal vents are the first found in the Gulf of California, scientists report.

The world's largest animal feeds by lunging and gulping huge volumes of prey-laden water.

In a project announced this week, Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology scientists appealed to museums, scientists and yeti aficionados to share samples thought to be from the mythical ape-like creature

The transition from swimming to walking involved some awkward first steps, according to a new study that recreated how one of the first animals, which left the sea for land, moved.

The realm of living things known to science gained some fascinating new members in the past year. These include a monkey that sneezes when it rains; a tiny worm discovered nearly a mile below ground; a mushroom that looks more like a sponge and the first night-blooming orchid ever recorded.

Water-sediment mix reduces drag on bivalve shells

  Humans love to line up in front of the glass walls at penguin zoo exhibits, staring at the antics of the black-and-white, two-legged creatures. But what about when the tides are turned, when penguins get a chance to meet the strange humans,  observing them...

A tyrannosaur skeleton has been sold for $1 million – but it's a dinosaur that has never been found outside Mongolia, where exporting fossils is illegal

When you look at an egg, do you think you know where it comes from? You might have some idea, but more likely the vocabulary of farming is giving you false ideas.