Newly identified dinosaur species sported a “striking sail”

The best of the season to inspire and admire

A round-up of the strangest science stories from around the world.

Modern intrusions vie with the trill of oystercatchers close to Dave’s dream home

It’s time to wrap up our rewatch of the second series of Fortean TV. And to think the unthinkable: are the zany graphics, Fanthorpe’s gnomic utterances and the surface level treatment of both the seri

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

A sturdy bonsai freshwater swashbuckler, the spiny stickleback is often the first fish we catch as children