Researchers have discovered a new deep-sea louse living an astonishing five miles under the Atlantic Ocean. The isopod - a close relative to woodlice - was found in the Puerto…
Mexican boffins who found an ancient canoe carved from a single tree trunk say it may have been used in rituals symbolising the entrance to the underworld. Underwater archaeologists found…
Scientists examining one of the few items to have escaped a devastating fire that destroyed a spectacular museum collection have discovered a previously unknown species of insect. The Brazilian National…
Manmade global warming is causing more and more plant species to migrate to the high Andes and displace rare mountain plants, boffins have revealed. According to a study recently published…
Boffins in Mexico have brought the pre-Hispanic era back to life with this stunning recreation of the outfit of a Mixtec warrior queen. Experts from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology…
Experts have studied the skull of a 1.5 million-year-old human ancestor with one of the smallest cranial capacities and say that it was longer and rounder than those of modern…
Experts in Japan have said that what was long thought to be a mummified mermaid is in fact fake after studying it for a year. The "Mermaid Mummy" is owned…
Austrian boffins claimed in a recent study that ongoing climate change make ants act more aggressively. The study - published by a research team from the University of Innsbruck in…
Scientists in China have discovered 100-million-years-old fossilised turtle footprints, including one ‘among the world’s best preserved’. The rare discovery was made at the Huanglonggou fossil site, located in the eastern…
Boffins were left stunned after discovering the world's heaviest bony fish weighing over 2.7 tonnes on a beach in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The massive sunfish weighed 2,744…