Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series ...

This page links BBC Teach geography content to the objectives of the National Curriculum for England at KS1 and KS2.

You might love paddling or swimming at the beach. Maybe you love checking out colourful sea anemones in a rock pool. It could be that you dream of dolphins, splashing around in the deep blue sea. Or ...

“The metabolism is the body’s internal operating system,” said Ambika Ashraf, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and the Ralph Froshin Endowed Chair in Pediatric ...

Pantolambda bathmodon, a stocky, now-extinct mammal, lived 62 million years ago and reached roughly 92 lbs in adulthood, which was a much larger size than most mammals that came before. Video credit: ...

Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

Rescuers in Germany are racing to try to save the life of a whale stranded in shallow water on the coast. Diggers have tried to dredge a channel into deeper waters to release the 33ft mammal back into ...

BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle Philip Landrigan ...

A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth's history, and answering a ...