Ancient living soil microbes discovered over two kilometres beneath the seafloor A new study has drilled deeper into the seabed than ever before, and discovered a thriving community of ancient soil microbes, tens of millions of years old
Scientists rediscover extinct sea snakes A team of scientists from Australia and Denmark have rediscovered two species of sea snakes that were though to have been extinct since 2001.
Killer whales and walruses more closely related to wolves than each other New study shows how some animals ended up looking very similar yet share almost none of the same genetic mutations.
The Greenland shark: an overlooked creature The Greenland shark is a mythicised and unpopular animal, perhaps due to a lack of knowledge. Now a research team has spent several weeks with some of Disko Bay’s Greenland sharks, where they performed risky experiments to find out more about the shark.