NATURE

The sea dragon, which is believed to have pre-dated dinosaurs, was pregnant at the time of its death.

Study shows how smell is fundamental to forming a bond with others.

The idea that human babies are cleverer than Great Apes "is just ridiculous".

Traces of Prozac and other medications are showing up in wild fish.

Authorities refused to say the attack was shark-related.

Pallid bats are just a few centimetres long, but the potent venom of the Arizona bark scorpion can't kill them.

The new findings could shed light on modern climate change.

How did baleen whales evolve their strange filter-feeding habits?

Researchers have stumbled across a new piece of evidence which shines a light on the mystery.

The marine reptile is the earliest of its kind to be discovered.

Hurricane Harvey grew into a Category 4 storm as it hit Texas, bringing strong winds of up to 130mph and up to 40cm rain.

A 12,000-year-old skeleton was found among sabre-toothed cats and giant ground sloths.

Berlin's huge Tiergarten park is crawling with a species of crayfish native to America's Deep South.

These distinctive Caribbean mammals are a lot tougher than they look.

16th and 17th century sailors differed wildly in their descriptions of the dodo's appearance.

The footage shows the entire mating process between the common seadragons.

Believing in mythical creatures could be the best thing you ever did to save rare animals.

The recent shark sitings have led to calls for shark culling in Cape Cod.

The mysterious habitats of the deep are being destroyed before we know anything about them.

Surprisingly enough, this is good news for people bitten by snakes.

It went dark for at least two years after the asteroid hit 66 million years ago.

Communication is thought to help the penguins hunt more effectively.

Ranging from 100m to 3,850m in height, the volcanoes were discovered using a digital elevation model known as Bedmap 2.

The 13-year-old boy is the fourth confirmed shark bite on Hilton Head Island.

Tremors felt as far away as Singapore, but no reports of Tsunami

The animals performed like four-year-old human children.

It's a good job fish don't need a license to swim – in winter they're permanently over the limit.

People may not know they have been exposed because bats have such small teeth.

They could glide between trees above the dinosaurs that roamed the ground.