Monster myths busted

SPOOKY STORIES OF SINISTER SPECTRES ARE NOTHING NEW. HERE, DR IRVING FINKEL TELLS US ABOUT THE GHOSTS OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch

Summer 1975 was a glorious time to be young on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. “We had the beaches to ourselves – nobody else wanted to go in the water, not even a lot of people who’d l

WONDERS OF THE OCEAN

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

They’re often depicted as huge, scaly beasts, but new discoveries are changing our beliefs about the creatures that once stalked our planet