‘Veggie’ dinosaurs differed in how they ate their food
Although most early dinosaurs were vegetarian, there were a surprising number of differences in the way that these animals tackled eating a plant-based diet,...
Lightning sparks new source of climate data 100 years later
The discovery by weather and climate scientists, using pre-Second World War data records from Australia and Scotland, opens the door to a new source...
Statistics star number crunches Christmas and reveals how maths can help your decorations look...
The festive countdown is in full swing and numbers are uppermost in mind, as people manage tighter budgets and fill their social calendars with...
Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA were found in Ice Age sediment in northern Greenland. The fragments are one million years older than the previous...
New study highlights urgent need to safeguard deep reefs – one of the largest...
As world leaders, government negotiators, scientists and conservationists gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, to agree to halt and reverse nature loss, an...
Social bees travel greater distances for food than their solitary counterparts, study finds
Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers at the University of Bristol.
The findings, published today in Current Biology,...
New Scottish fossil sheds light on the origins of lizards
A fossil discovery from Scotland has provided new information on the early evolution of lizards, during the time of the dinosaurs
The tiny skeleton discovered...
Dynamic oxygen levels may have accelerated animal evolution
Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the development of...
New analysis of shipping emissions reveals that air pollution has a larger effect on...
A group of researchers based at Oxford University’s Climate Processes Group has used novel methods of analysing satellite data to more accurately quantify the effect of...
Calculator which could reduce the level of carbon emissions generated by food production and...
A calculator which could reduce the level of carbon emissions generated by food production and consumption has been developed by data scientists at the...