Female capuchin monkeys have been filmed throwing stones at potential mates as a form of flirtation.

There has been a catastrophic collapse in the number of lions in West Africa, with only around 400 left in the region, a new survey suggests.

Scientists finally get to describe the back end of a key fossil illustrating the transition of animal life from water to land.

Pine Island Glacier, the longest and fastest flowing ice stream in the Antarctic, is now very probably in a headlong, self-sustaining retreat, say scientists.

An online platform, dubbed RoboEarth, is being unveiled this week as a kind of world wide web for robots.

The cost of policing the badger cull in Gloucestershire and Somerset is confirmed as being close to £2.5m - about £1,311 per badger.