As the stinkbugs lay their eggs, the scientists saw the females using the tip of their back legs to scratch its fungus-filled hindleg organs. They then smeared the egg with the fungus, which grew to ...
Shifts in Earth’s climate and ecosystems will have untold consequences for billions of people across the world.
Book your tickets for our Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, which opens Friday 17 October 2025. In the image Ghost Town Visitor, a hyena stands looking near the direction of the camera as ...
South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever has been announced as Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 for his powerful image, ‘Ghost Town Visitor’. The competition’s Young Wildlife ...
7,500 educational settings now taking part in the free National Education Nature Park programme ...
Almost three quarters of all vertebrates that have been driven extinct by humans lived on islands. The majority of these ...
New analysis shows that the vast majority of the areas we depend on for our survival aren’t being well looked after.
Over the last 50 years, wildlife populations have experienced a staggering 73% decline. The latest findings from the World Wide Fund for the Nature’s Living Planet Report come with a stark warning ...
Across northern Europe, the remains of human bones covered in cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks have been found. New research shows that some human groups living around 15,000 years ago were ...
Plants have long been used as traditional remedies, but now their many health benefits are helping fight some of humankind's biggest killers, such as heart disease and cancer. Discover nature's plant ...
During 2020, COVID-19 vaccines were created in record time. Nature plays a huge part in the medicines we rely on every day. And when it comes to vaccines, we have horseshoe crabs and their blood to ...
Ancient DNA shows that the culture that brought Bronze Age technology to Britain was connected to a migration that almost completely replaced the island's earlier inhabitants. Museum scientists were ...