View Article  America's Oldest Artwork

Ancient Elephant Carved into Bone - Could be Three Times Older than Stone Henge

A small piece of fossilised animal bone, with a carving of a prehistoric elephant scratched onto ...   more »

View Article  The Controversy over the Polar Bear

Polar Bear Jawbone gives Clues to Evolution of Polar Bear Species

Scientists have known for some time that the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) is most closely related to ...   more »

View Article  Monster Crocodile a Predator of Early Hominids

Fear of Crocodiles an Ancient Human Trait

In the first episode of the BBC television series "Walking with Cavemen", the episode entitled "First Ancestors" an adult Australopithecus afarensis is taking a ...   more »

View Article  Happy Chinese New Year - The Year of the Tiger

The Chinese New Year - Year of the Tiger

The Chinese New Year, otherwise known as the lunar spring year started yesterday (February 14th).  As the Chinese traditional calendar is ...   more »

View Article  David Attenborough Life Stories

Sir David Attenborough's Life Stories

The excellent radio 4 series "Life Stories" written and produced by Sir David Attenborough.   more »

View Article  Homer's Odyssey - Injured Loggerhead Turtle finds a New Home

Injured Turtle Heading for Newquay Aquarium

Turtle that was blinded finds new home in Newquay, Cornwall.   more »

View Article  Crocodiles that can Respond when their Names are Called

Pair of Dwarf Caiman Respond to Voice Commands claims Visitor Attraction

Crocodiles have a deserved reputation for being nasty characters, of the twenty of so species in the world today, ...   more »

View Article  The Evolution of Laughter

The Evolution of Laughter - The Development of the Ability to Mock

Tickle a Gorilla, a Bonobo chimp (our closest extant relative) or an Orangutan and they will express ...   more »

View Article  And Darwin Mentions the Quagga

Darwin Uses the Quagga to help Explain the Laws of Variation

It is interesting to note that whilst re-reading the Origin of Species, that Darwin use the example of several genera of horses to demonstrate reversion in natural selection...   more »

View Article  Lyuba Makes Her Terrestrial Television Debut

Secrets of a Baby Mammoth

The discovery of a perfectly preserved baby Woolly Mammoth by a nomadic reindeer herder in the northwestern part of the huge Siberian tundra, sent shock ...   more »

View Article  Bikini Clad Girls Photographed on top of a Crocodile Trap

Girls in Bikinis Dance on Top of Crocodile Trap

It was not Darwin who coined the phrase "Survival of the Fittest" but a contemporary of his Herbert Spencer, a philosopher ...   more »

View Article  The Goat that lived like a Reptile

Ancient Goat Species Lived like a Reptile

The island of Majorca in the Spanish Balearics may be regarded as a holiday retreat for many.  Indeed, this group of islands, of ...   more »

View Article  World's Oldest Spider's Web found Entombed in Amber

Ancient Spider's Web Preserved In Amber

An amateur fossil hunter looking for dinosaur fossils along the Sussex coast (England), has found a 140 million-year-old piece of amber (fossilised tree resin), ...   more »

View Article  Dinosaur Drama Saved from Extinction

ITV Primeval Saved from the Axe

The science fiction, time travelling show Primeval has been saved from the commissioner's axe after a new deal between ITV and the digital channel ...   more »

View Article  The Original King Kong - Gigantopithecus

Gigantopithecus blacki - The Original King Kong

The original King Kong film was released in 1933.  Merian C Cooper (who produced the film) along with Edgar Wallace (the writer of ...   more »