From what species did seals evolve?

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

It’s not only salmon making their move, writes Giles Catchpole

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

AUGUST has thrown up a number of stories ...

KILLER WHALES, OR ORCAS, have been filmed making and then using what is thought to be the cetacean equivalent of a pumice stone. It’s the first time that a marine mammal has been seen creating a groom

THE KENYAN CONSERVATIONIST’S ‘SEA SAFARIS’ COMBINE SCIENCE WITH TRAVEL, OFFERING THE CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN OCEAN PROTECTION