The last major classifications for England’s rivers were released in 2019, with the new update for the 2025 cycle expected ...

OFFICIAL classifications tracking the health of England’s rivers have been relying on data that is up to a decade old, campaigners warned today.The Environmental Agency (EA) has been using analysis ...

The Department of Environment (DOE) has elaborated on achievements and measures taken by the administration to protect the ...

Among the world's most productive ecosystems are wetlands, which support exceptionally high concentrations of birds, mammals, ...

Megalodon usually gets all the attention when it comes to sea monsters, but ancient oceans were full of predators just as ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper ...

A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

Discover all you need to know about gray whales, including what they look like, how big they are, lifespan and where they ...