From Monday 19 October until Thursday 3 December 2026, Wildlife Photographer of the Year invites nature photography ...

Federico Veronesi (Italy) witnesses a powerful moment of an elephant carrying a dead calf, a rare glimpse into complex animal behaviours. Federico was tracking elephants when he came across an unusual ...

Oscar Whitfield (Zimbabwe/UK) notices the arduous exertion of this dung beetle pushing its precious cargo. Using a fast ...

A newly discovered dinosaur is shining a light on an important moment in the evolution of dinosaurs. Discovered on the shore of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, Musango matusadonaensis opens a window into the ...

An unassuming fragment of fossil bone collected four decades ago has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur bone ever discovered on Antarctica. Today, Antarctica is known for its thick ice cap ...

A ‘quite rare’ fossil find from South Korea is the nation’s first new dinosaur in 15 years. Adding to the rich diversity of extinct animals from this region, it has been called Doolysaurus huhmin due ...

Large areas of the world could soon become unrecognisable if global temperatures continue to rise. From the loss of coral reefs to the shutdown of major ocean currents, shifts in Earth’s climate and ...

The Grand Title Award went to Wim van den Heever for his picture of a brown hyena in the abandoned town of Kolmanskop, Namibia. In the image Ghost Town Visitor, a hyena stands looking near the ...

The reanalysis of ancient human skulls unearthed in China might upend how we thought humans evolved. New research argues that the age of the skull suggests that the split between our lineage and that ...

Amber discovered in Ecuador has opened a window onto Earth’s distant past. Flies, wasps and other insects were among the invertebrates living in a humid forest over 110 million years ago. Insects that ...

Today, the largest predator in the UK is the badger, but in the past bigger, now extinct carnivores roamed the British countryside. In recent decades, it’s been suggested that these animals, including ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record. New research, however, suggests that many of ...