Cockroaches are outsmarting our efforts to kill them by evolving to avoid the taste of sugar traps, a study reveals.
Nearly 5,000 ancient cave paintings have been discovered in Burgos, Mexico.
Chinese scientists trace the rare white colouration in Bengal tigers to a single change in a gene that affects a host of animals, including humans.
Severe water shortages will affect more than half the world’s future population of nine billion people by 2050 if governments fail to collaborate on international efforts to protect and conserve life’s most vital ingredient, experts have warned. One of the first indications of a future water crisis will be mass migrations of people away from areas without water.
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust capture osprey chicks hatching on camera for the first time.
Installation is under way of an expanded monitoring system for Iceland's volcanoes, which it is hoped will give the world more warning of the next big eruption.
An injured turtle found by a fisherman in Florida has been returned to the sea after being treated at a rescue centre.
Space engineers in Ecuador are trying to establish if the country's only satellite has been destroyed in a crash with space debris.
Nasa is looking for commercial operators to lease a historic launch pad in Florida used for the first Moon missions and by the Atlantis shuttle.
The remains of King Richard III, discovered under a city car park, were buried in a "hastily dug, untidy grave", researchers reveal.

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