A new and controversial frontier in mining is opening up as a British firm joins a growing rush to exploit minerals in the depths of the oceans.

Hair-like structures inside the throats of filter-feeding whales tangle to trap food, according to a study.

Pro-shark fishing nations narrowly fail to overturn landmark regulations on three endangered species at the Cites conference in Bangkok.

Scientists in Tanzania turned an iPhone into an amateur microscope to check schoolchildren for intestinal worms.

Two ring-tailed lemurs, a species which rarely lives beyond 20 years, have turned 25, a Bedfordshire zoo confirms.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say the particle outlined in July 2012 looks increasingly to be a Higgs boson.

The Cites convention tells the worst ivory offenders to get their houses in order or face sanctions

A genetic study provides an insight into the tricks that these bugs are using to evade insecticides.