An expedition to the previously unexplored New Hebrides trench in the Pacific has revealed that giant eels and crustaceans teem thousands of metres beneath the waves.

Flood damage losses across Europe are expected to increase four fold by 2050, according to a new estimate from scientists.

A snake wins a lengthy battle with a crocodile in northern Queensland, wrestling it, constricting it and then finally eating it.

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London are aiming to reconstruct people's faces with stem cells taken from their fat.