Think you know about mammals? think again

Fossilised dinosaur prints, volcanic craters, ice-carved corries – there are places in Britain where the landscape is a portal to the past. Hanna Lindon takes a stroll through 4 billion years of British history

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

Can we really bring back long-extinct animals, or are scientists just making close copies?

Colossal has a shopping list of species its wants to de-extinct

The ichthyosaur fossil was discovered in 2001, but ...

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory