Daisy Dunne

We all love a bit of a disco, but even members of the animal kingdom can't resist a bit of a boogie.

Formally known as the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system, supermoons are lunar events that have a big effect on how we view the Moon.

Hate finding presents for people? Why not draw inspiration from nature and gift your friends with rocks, cyanide or a castle made out of sperm with the animal kingdom’s weirdest gift-giving rituals.

Following the release of Jurassic World on DVD and Blu-ray, we spoke to dinosaur expert Dr Jakob Vinther about the film’s biggest dinosaur disasters that question the ‘science’ in ‘science fiction’…

The expression “friends are the family you choose” may be a well worn cliché, but as scientists from the University of California and Yale have discovered, there may be more scientific truth to this statement than previously thought.

Animals communicate with one another using a plethora of signals: tropical fish use neon technicolour, songbirds tweet sweet melodies and gorillas, new research has shown, may communicate using social odour cues.

Birds are pretty impressive animals: they can fly, have an advanced vocal system and some can be as intelligent as primates. But how did they evolve?