Science
New species of crocodile 10 feet long has been discovered by scientists
The new study confirms there are two species living on either side of a mountain range which splits the island into north and south
Climate change ‘could be combated by blowing up asteroid – just like Bruce Willis in Armageddon’
A cataclysmic collision between two space rocks 466 million years ago caused Earth to freeze over, say scientists.
New species of giant salamander could be the world’s biggest amphibian
The preserved Chinese giant salamander once lived at ZSL London Zoo and has been on display at the Natural History Museum for 74 years.
The ‘biggest’ star in the universe has been unveiled by astronomers.
It's more than twice the mass of the sun - and about 700,000 times heavier than Earth.
New species of pterodactyl dinosaur size of a small plane has been discovered
Nicknamed the frozen dragon of the north, the 75 million year old fossil is new to science.
Which testicle is warmer and why wombats poo cubes: this year’s Ig Nobel science prizes
The Ig Nobel awards, which celebrate weird, odd and head-scratching scientific discoveries, were handed out at an annual ceremony this week.
This half-a-billion-year-old vicious predator is the earliest known ancestor of spiders
Palaeontologists working on the Burgess Shale fossil-bearing deposit in the Canadian Rockies discovered the new species, called Mollisonia plenovenatrix
Water vapour detected in atmosphere of habitable ‘super-Earth’ planet by British astronomers
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system known to have both water and temperatures that could support life
Medics restart baby’s heart after dunking her in bucket of icy water
Specialists saved Holly Hutchinson using a different technique after he heart became infected.