Prehistoric ‘terror beasts’ discovered in greenland

A fossilised jawbone found by a University of Portsmouth student is from a newly identified species of prehistoric mammal. Undergraduate Benjamin Weston, 22, unearthed the fossil during a field trip t

THE DEEP SEA IS BY FAR THE LARGEST habitat on Earth. It is, says Natalie Lawrence in her book Enchanted Creatures, “the last wilderness vast enough to hide monsters”. Unsurprisingly, many myths have a

The great naturalist Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur”, wrote the first scientific descriptions of dinosaurs and was a founder of the first Natural History Museum (NHM) and its first directo

A serious problem that occurs when small redworm larvae emerge en masse, larval cyathostominosis can threaten life. Tim Mair FRCVS explains the condition and how to avoid it

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra

COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent takes a closer look at the sturgeon, which has been highly prized by gastronomes since Roman times