ONE of the UK’s biggest free museums has been named the most popular attraction in the UK. The Natural History Museum in ...

From whale hearts to giraffe tongues, explore how huge and tiny animal body parts really are, using everyday objects as your ...

From towering dinosaur skeletons to glittering gemstones, London’s Natural History Museum offers an unforgettable journey ...

A fossilized skull and jawbones found belonged to a crested dinosaur that lived 95 million years ago— the first new species ...

Nothing in Earth’s history compares to the blue whale. This ocean giant outweighs dinosaurs and stretches longer than most ...

A father-daughter duo, fossil hunting on a Somerset beach, found the jawbone of Ichthyotitan severnensis, a 25-metre sea ...

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors adapted quickly, and over the years, their descendants grew into animals that ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the largest animal that’s ever existed on Earth—and that includes dinosaurs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Read on to discover the 12-inch-thick throat muscles and a 90-second gulp that power its baleen-filter feeding. The biggest whale ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

The things that fascinate us most tend to be wonders we have never seen up close. It's our natural response to be curious, to question what it must be like to fly by Jupiter and its moons or live ...