A new study has found fish using tools to open shellfish. Tool use is when creatures use an item to achieve to a goal, like ...

Alexandra Schnell receives funding from the National Geographic Society. In nature, interactions between species are often framed in terms of survival — those that hunt and those that are hunted.

Estimates for payrolled employees in the UK increased by 9,000 (0.0%) between December 2024 and January 2025 and rose by 44,000 (0.1%) between January 2024 and January 2025. Payrolled employees fell ...

De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.

113 in Europe (including the UK), and 186 worldwide. They are a key focus of global conservation efforts, and each successful hatching is a significant step toward the species' survival. Breeding ...

Involving more than 800 scientists from more than 400 institutions worldwide, Ocean Census has embarked on ten expeditions and numerous workshops—so far—with a sole aim: discovering new species in the ...

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) had also previously confirmed it was supporting a British national. Image caption, Paul and Andrea Burke said Becky had been "quite ...

Over one million species are on the path to extinction over the coming decades, with animals all around the world under threat, according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on ...

We're nearly a quarter of the way through 2025 already, but there are still plenty of major movie releases to come this year in UK cinemas. We're here to help with a round-up of all the major 2025 ...

A squat lobster discovered near Easter Island, one of the many newly identified species by the Ocean Census Gallardo / The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census Scientists have identified 866 new ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...