How Ancient Britains racked up the food miles
Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the earliest large-scale celebrations in Britain – with people and animals travelling hundreds of miles for prehistoric...
Gorillas are a lot more like us than we thought
Gorillas have more complex social structures than previously thought, from lifetime bonds forged between distant relations, to "social tiers" with striking parallels to traditional...
Could this be the “missing link”?
A Previously unknown primate living twelve million years ago in southern Germany walked on two legs in an Upright posture millions of years earlier...
Scientists shed light on mystery of dark matter
Scientists have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the “dark matter” in the Universe during the Big Bang.
Up to 80% of the...
Manchester Researchers Discover How Genome Controls Early Human Development
A team led by scientists from The University of Manchester has discovered how our genome controls the development of many of the organs critical...
Flightless birds more common globally before human-driven extinctions
There would be at least four times as many flightless bird species on Earth today if it were not for human influences, finds a...
Unusual fossil reveals last meal of prehistoric pollinator
The animal’s remains were unearthed by researchers at the University of Bristol and the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy...
Fossil study gets to root of Earth’s early plants
A 3D model of a 400-million-year-old fossil has shed light on an enduring mystery about how some of Earth’s first plants evolved and helped...
Climate crisis will leave pollinators searching further for food
Study yields the first direct experimental evidence that climate change would immediately impact wildflowers and pollinators.
It is predicted that global average temperatures will have...
New gravitational wave telescope developed
A new telescope made up of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet has been produced to track down sources of gravitational...