Kairuku penguins come ashore, passing a stranded Waipatia dolphin; Artwork by Chris Gaskin, owner and copyright owner: Geology Museum, University of Otago Scientists have unveiled details about a ...

This wheatear fledgling has a fantastic 14,500km (9010 mile) journey to make, and then fly back again; Credit: Shutterstock When he set of for, "The Indies," little did Columbus know what had preceded ...

The recent success of the wolf has been in reaching territories that have been empty for centuries. The American Midwest, Rome, the North Sea coasts of Europe and even Parisian suburbs are within ...

Greater bamboo lemurs are found only on the island of Madagascar. With less than 200 individuals left in the wild, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature International Union for 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 ...

While turtles become wrapped in nets and eat our plastic rubbish and sports go on worldwide, there is every reason why sportsmen and sportswomen should be advocates of turtle problems. The golfers ...

The Great Green Wall is an initiative that has been planned for many years by a partnership of eleven African countries in a bid to prevent further desertification by the Sahara. The good news is the ...

New light has been shone on extreme weather events by a team of engineering and mathematics experts. The researchers from Columbia Engineering, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and Rutgers ...

Homo neandertalensis and Homo sapiens are similar in their brain-case morphology. The brain in the anatomically modern human (AMH) is globular in shape with large olfactory lobes, but otherwise ...

Social insects (the hymenoptera, excluding the primitive termites) all use the same sex determination mechanism, with a gene called csd calling the shots. Hainan is a large southern Chinese island ...

Nest Laboratories at Palo Alto have furthered the Californian ambition to be ahead in all technology. As far as your home comforts are concerned, the learning thermostat has the potential to keep you ...

Climate change - although it was cooling rather than warming - probably helped end the Viking settlements on Greenland according to the latest evidence discovered by a Brown University team of ...