Climate change: 600C wildfires kept big dinosaurs away from Equator for 30 million years
Extreme climate change may solve mystery of absence of big Triassic dinosaurs in tropics.
SharkBytes: Shark attack app allows users to search beaches across globe for past incidents
SharkBytes app lets people search for attacks and incidents via GPS
Nasa New Horizons spots Pluto's bright and dark faces in latest images of 'complex world'
Pictures of Pluto show dwarf planet has very bright and very dark terrain.
Game of Thrones - greyscale and its real-life equivalents
Greyscale is highly contagious and frequently fatal.
Monsters of the deep: Colossal squid and mighty toothfish waging war in Antarctica
Scientists discover two sea monsters feasting on each other 2,000m below Antarctic surface.
Micro CT scan reveals Russian doll-style frog in a frog
Award-winning photograph shows American horned frog can swallow very large prey.
Jurassic World: Palaeontologist Dean Lomax describes his dream hybrid dinosaur
Palaeontologist Dean Lomax talks Jurassic World and how real dinosaurs compare.
Chinese surgeon performs 1,000 head transplants on mice, eyes monkeys for next project
Xiaoping Ren has carried out almost 1,000 head transplants on mice in 10-hour surgery procedures.
Deep Blue: Monster great white shark high fives diver in Mexico
Deep Blue believed to be 20ft long
Global warming to stunt plant growth by 11% by 2100 with 'dire consequences'
Some regions of Earth will see 200 fewer days of plant growth by end of the century.
Dramatic ice sheet collapse 135,000 years ago triggered massive climate change and sea level peak
Collapse of ice sheet caused planet to warm in unusual way in ice age before last.
Jurassic World: What were the biggest dinosaurs ever to have lived?
The five largest dinosaurs in history.
Smart skin wearable device alerts users to harmful levels of UV radiation
Australian researchers create wearable sensor that monitors ultraviolet levels in real time.
Ancient Caral civilisation: 3,800-year-old statuettes of priestess and politicians discovered in Peru
Archaeologists discover three terracotta figurines made by Caral civilisation.
Raining lamprey mystery: Foot-long vampire fish fall from the sky in Alaska [Photos]
Alaska Department of Fish and Game called to reports of eel-like fish falling from the sky.
Blood cells and collagen discovered in 75 million-year-old dinosaur bones by chance
Soft tissues found in eight poorly preserved dinosaur fossils from Cretaceous period.
Elephant poaching crisis: Last chance for Africa's greatest creatures
As China moves to ban illegal ivory, IBTimes UK looks at the problems facing African elephants.
Why ketamine is such a powerful antidepressant
Ketamine may stimulate region of the brain's prefrontal cortex, scientists discover.
Secrets of deep sleep discovered paving way for drug therapies to treat disorders
Scientists uncover channel that leads to deep sleep potentially unlocking mysteries of unconsciousness.
Renewable jet fuel from sugarcane cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 80%
Sugarcane biomass converted into compounds that can be used as green fuel and lubricants.
Creativity and psychosis 'share genetic roots'
Genetic variants used to show link between creativity and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Why we have been building fires the same way since the dawn of time
Scientist discovers why all humans build fires with the same general shape.
Drowning on dry land: Businessman crashed car and died after rare 'secondary drowning' case
Alan Gough died in road crash hours after his canoe capsized in the Lake District.
Facebook baby yoga abuse is 'extreme form of Russian baby gymnastics mixed with water'
Baby yoga teacher explains the Facebook video definitely does not show baby yoga.
Global warming hiatus 'does not exist' according to updated temperatures
Study disputes existence of global warming slowdown described by scientists over recent decades.
Regaliceratops peterhewsi: Triceratops' 'bizarre Hellboy' cousin discovered in Canada
New horned dinosaur has two 'comically small' horns over its eyes.
Myth busted: Scientists show eating placenta has no health benefits in humans
Study shows now scientific evidence of new mothers eating placenta.
Seven teeny tiny species of poisonous frog discovered in Brazilian Rainforest [Photos]
New species of "highly miniaturised" frogs measure less than one centimetre in length.
Vietnam: Extremely rare and elusive Annamite Striped rabbit filmed in wild
Rare rabbit was photographed, filmed and held by researchers working with WWF.
Weird interactions between Pluto's moons show they behave like 'unruly teenagers'
Unusual details about orbital and rotational patterns of Pluto and its moons revealed.
