Peter Batstone

Nintendo are one of the big three when it comes to games consoles, and on the announcement of the new Nintendo Switch we look at their hits (and the odd miss as well).

Cut marks on teeth suggest human evolution developed handedness 1.8 million years ago.

Ice Age cave artists painted elusive hybrid bison 15,000 years ago.

Oldest-found fossilised Vegavis iaai syrinx suggests birds were singing as long ago as when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

They might not be the prettiest, but naked mole-rats have an extraordinary tolerance to pain, and a new study might have worked out why.