A 12ft-long python found on the Norfolk Broads has still not been found.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove plans to pay farmers for protecting the environment and creating rural jobs.

The bag was used by astronaut Neil Armstrong to collect the first ever samples of the Moon in 1969.

A 10-year-old boy's stumble unearthed a prehistoric skull, which he then got the chance to help excavate.

The number fledging from the UK in 2017 is more than the total number for the previous 30 years.

Male elephant seals recognise the rhythm of one another's voices, researchers say.

A US congressman asked scientists if the Red Planet could have been occupied "thousands of years ago".

Pangolins in the forests of Africa are at risk of being pushed to extinction like their Asian relatives.

Research shows Aboriginal people entered Australia up to 18,000 years earlier than thought.

Being friendly is in dogs' nature and could be key to how they were domesticated from wolves.

A UK zoo is taking part in a radical plan to save the world's last northern white rhinos from extinction.

Dogs were tamed from a single wolf population between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, a study suggests.

The European Space Agency turns off one of its most successful ever missions - LISA Pathfinder.

The birds were collected under licence for translocation to a part of Spain where they have not bred for years.

New research suggests the dinosaur could go no faster than a very brisk walking pace.