All Liaoningosaurus specimens come from Liaoning Province in northeastern China. Many remarkable fossils from the Cretaceous Period, between 145 and 66 million years ago, have been unearthed in this ...

Even in diseases where the climate risks have been studied, there’s a lot of variability. While higher temperatures have been linked with a higher risk of disease, that’s not always the case. For ...

AMISTAD, a new collections-based research project led by London’s Natural History Museum, is working on untangling the identities of a group of blue butterflies from South America.

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire over a million years ago, but the discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

We now know how good the sense of smell was in giant sloths, sabre-toothed tigers and other long-lost species.

An investigation into the biodiversity of a deep-sea mining exploration zone before and after the trial of a deep-sea mining machine finds that the number of animals within the mining tracks decreased ...

Over a period of five years, researchers sampled the deep-sea floor of the CCZ three times before and one time two months ...

Many regions of the deep sea are currently being explored for the potential to mine them for minerals, but it is still largely unknown what actually lives on the seabed. Two new papers have looked at ...

When it comes to large mammals living in the heart of UK cities, you might think the red fox is in a league of its own. But there’s another top predator back in town – the Eurasian otter. Discover ...