Brownfield or waste land sites are valuable and overlooked habitats for rare UK species, say conservationists.

A 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Bataar, unearthed in the Gobi Desert in 1946, is to be seized by the US Department of Homeland Security.

The woman who gave birth to the world's first test tube baby in 1978 after pioneering treatment has died, it is announced.

First Minister Alex Salmond announces that universities in Scotland and California will work together on medical research into diseases such as Parkinson's.

Greenpeace is launching a campaign backed by star names to have the Arctic region declared a sanctuary by the United Nations.

Australian scientists find 50 skeletons from a pre-historic "giant wombat" - described as a "palaeontologists' goldmine".

Researchers demonstrate "emulsions" that respond to magnetic fields in an advance that could revolutionise the cleanup of oil spills.

The DNA of some Africans provides clues to the origins of the Queen of Sheba legend, say scientists.