Some animals are able to use iron-based magnetic compounds such as magnetite to detect and navigate via the Earth’s magnetic field – a sense called magnetoreception. We considered magnetism in the ...

Horror is a valid genre in cinema, the same way as drama, or romance, or comedy, or anything else,” Christopher Nolan told me ...

Recent studies describe Brazil as the largest consumer of shark meat. Yet sharks are among the most threatened group of ...

Space mirrors designed to extend daylight for solar power and rescue missions get FCC approval ...

For many people, the sight of a snake sparks an instant feeling of fear. They’ve long been cast as villains, earning a reputation as animals to avoid at all costs. Yet that image tells only a small ...

The Crystal Palace dinosaurs have stood proudly since the 1850s (Picture: PA) Inside one South London park, birds, squirrels, ...

I made the fatal mistake of rereading Animal Farm, George Orwell’s blistering allegory of Stalin’s iron grip on the Soviet Union, post-monarchy-dispensing revolution. Not because it isn’t a ...

People at eight of those villages recognized the orange-mouthed monkey. Those from the Balanga ethnic group called it Likweli ...

The story of Earth's first animals may need rewriting after ancient fossils revealed an earlier start to complex life.

Historical satellite images can reveal what penguin colonies feed on. A potentially groundbreaking study now shows this.

Creatures that survive extreme conditions like mind-boggling temperatures and toxicity challenge how we define life. Bárbara Pinho finds out how it will impact how we search for life beyond Earth ...