The world's oldest ant fossil preserved within a 113-million-year-old lump of limestone has been unearthed in a long-forgotten museum collection. Biologists at Sao Paulo University's Zoology Museum have revealed what…
Greedy food-stealing polar bear gets a harsh weather warning when a meteorologist at a science station lets rip. The hungry bear was caught raiding the frozen cod supplies of the…
These images show a mutant piglet that was reportedly born looking and sounding like a human baby. The video, filmed in Tanjay, in Negros Oriental province, in the Philippines, shows…
This rare footage showing hundreds of eight-legged crawlers seemingly 'raining from the sky' is in fact a spider mating orgy, experts have said. The video, filmed in Sao Thome das…
The video shows the brand-new research station for species conservation that was launched by a zoo in Switzerland. Footage from the zoo in Zurich shows the new station designed to…
Chinese scientists have made a groundbreaking advance in wearable technology by developing fibers capable of generating light and electricity when worn. Dr Yang Weifeng from Donghua University in Shanghai, China,…
An Austrian vintner has made a remarkable discovery after stumbling upon 40,000-year-old mammoth bones while renovating his cellar for the coming harvest. Winemaker Andreas Pernerstorfer was stunned when he came…
Bug experts in Germany and France have unearthed a missing link wasp species trapped in a piece of amber around 100 million years ago that was found in Myanmar. Entomologists…
NASA has revealed that it is sending a "message in a bottle" to possible alien life hiding 1.8 billion miles away on Jupiter's moon Europa. The message, in the form…
Researchers have made a significant scientific breakthrough after successfully cloning two Tibetan lambs using the body cells of adult sheep. The two Tibetan lambs were born in China's Qinghai province…