Marine scientists have discovered a huge and previously unknown coral reef in perfect condition off the coast of Charles Darwin's Galapagos islands. Experts in the team from Britain, America and Ecuador believe the reef - sitting on an underwater mountain - could be thousands of years old. Astonishing video footage…
New research has shown that rising temperatures have made rock glaciers in the Alps unstable. The study, which was led by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAeW), showed a significant movement of the Hochebenkar rock glacier, in the Oetztal Alps, Tyrol State, Austria. After analysing more than 70 years of…
A British research and charity institution has donated its enormous bird specimen collection to one of the leading natural history museums of Central Europe. The Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM) has announced that it received the Harrison Institute Bird Collection - a Kent-based charity - consisting of 19,000 birds of…
Scientists have discovered a tiny ancient snail that could have used hairs sprouting out of its shell to help it find mates. The creature was found in a 99 million-year-old piece of amber studied by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research in Frankfurt, Germany. Image shows the fossil snail discovered…
These are the first pictures of a schoolgirl engulfed in a fireball that burned her lungs and skin in a school science experiment gone wrong. Now, the mother of injured Annelise Lopes Andrade, 16, has reported her daughter's school in the city of Anapolis in the Brazilian state of Goias…
