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These insects have been locked in the throes of passion for 100 million years

Males of an ancient species of damselfly had very fancy legs, which they used to impress females.

Siberia permafrost: There are over 7,000 methane-filled bubbles 'ready to explode' in the Arctic

Huge craters have been appearing in Arctic regions over recent years due to thawing permafrost.

What is killing bees? Why we should worry about Colony Collapse Disorder

Devastating decline in apian populations across the world is result of three factors, Prof Dave Goulson of Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Sussex University tells IBTimes UK.

Peru landslides floods inundación imagenes

Images of flooding and landslides after El Niño dumps 10 times as much rain on Peru as normal

A sudden and abnormal warming of Pacific waters off Peru has unleashed the deadliest downpours in decades.

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AccuWeather app now lets you look at forecast in VR

The app is available on the Oculus Store for free.

Nasa's James Webb telescope haunted by ghosts? Eerie image of lights out inspection will surprise you

James Webb is the most powerful and the largest ever built telescope.

Astronomers are set to peer into a black hole and take a picture of its event horizon

Event Horizon Telescope will connect a global array of radio telescopes to try to look inside Sagittarius A*.

Extraordinary Mayan royal tomb reveals king's incense scattering rituals

King of Nim li Punit would wear a large jade pectoral decoration while performing sacred ceremonies.

How to predict when the Arctic sea ice will reach its lowest level

Study allows scientists to predict Arctic minimum sea ice more accurately and further in advance.

Skull of monster 'king' polar bear discovered in remote Alaska

The skull belongs to a bear that would have lived around 1,300 years ago.

Huge clouds of ammonia hanging over world's major farmlands have been detected from space

The US, Europe, China and India are each sitting under huge pools of ammonia in the atmosphere.

Wildflowers bloom in California after record drought, in pictures

Lake Elsinore, Diamond Valley Lake and Chino Hills State Park have all experienced a sudden explosion of wildflowers after dry weather gave way to heavy rain.

Inside a top secret underground Cold War nuclear facility in Chongqing, China

The world's largest artificial cave was designed to withstand thousands of tons of explosives and 8-magnitude earthquakes, as well as atomic and hydrogen bombs.

Giant ring of galaxies scattered during Andromeda flyby challenges Einstein's theory of gravity

Galaxies are moving away far faster than Einstein's theory can account for.

Historic nuclear weapons explosions footage declassified and uploaded to YouTube

Around 10,000 films were created covering 210 nuclear tests conducted by the US, which are now being digitised.

World's first fluorescent frog glows bright green in the dark

The chemical origins of fluorescence are molecules known as hyloins.

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell on the surface of the moon during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission.

Is India planning to brew beer on the Moon?

Unusual question was asked in Indian Parliament.

An ancient ice sheet pushed life to the brink at South Georgia 20,000 years ago

The island in the South Atlantic Ocean has one of the richest ecosystems on Earth - but it barely survived the last ice age.

Images of flooding and landslides in Lima and across Peru as heavy rains cause rivers to overflow

Some 62 people have died and 12,000 homes have been destroyed across Peru.

Haddock headache for Scottish fishermen as marine charity removes fish from sustainable seafood list

Fisheries fight back as Marine Conservation Society says haddock stocks are below acceptable levels.

Widow of North Face billionaire Douglas Tompkins donates million acres for Chile national parks

Land donated by Kristine McDivitt Tompkins will form part of a network of 17 national parks

Ancient pharaoh statue dug up from Cairo mud is not Ramses II but a different king

Egypt antiquities minister says discovery of likeness of Psamtek I is still of huge significance.

Fragments of the Earth's primordial crust have survived until today

The first land on Earth was a bit like Iceland is now, analysis of the ancient crust reveals.

Chimpanzee death rituals revealed, including cleaning corpse's teeth

A female was spotted grooming the body of her adopted son, who had died from a lung infection.

How tardigrades - or 'water bears' - dry out to survive the world's most extreme environments

Specific proteins could be responsible for tardigrades' impressive resilience.

Dirty rivers in drought-hit Mozambique kill as much as lack of food

IBTimes UK visits Changara district, where charity World Vision is assisting drought-hit communities.

Vietnam's Tarzan was raised in the jungle, cut off from civilisation for 40 years. Watch his amazing story here

Ho Van Lang was taken into the jungle by his father at the height of the Vietnam War and lived there until 2013.

President Trump: The Government Will Have To Learn To Tighten Its Belt

Nasa responds to Donald Trump's budget - it will use the money to fly as far away from him as it can

Space agency said it would be 'reshaping' its focus based on the resources available.

Ancient leopards roamed the lowlands of Northern Italy 180,000 years ago

A tibia belonging to one of these felines was recovered in river deposits.

Polar bears are threatened by global warming - should subsistence harvest be allowed to continue?

It may be possible to maintain polar bear harvest in the Arctic without causing more harm to polar bears.

Toxic nitrogen oxides could be captured from factory fumes to make medicine

NOx gases are pollutants, but can be used in chemical processes to create nitrogen-containing drugs.

Nitrogen bubbles on Saturn's moon Titan help solve mystery of 'magic islands'

Nasa experiments have shown how bubbles may form in cold liquid methane on the surface of Titan.

Africa's largest snake has been caught devouring an entire hyena on camera for the first time

A tourist stumbled across the scene in Kenya.

Astronomers have found a star orbiting a black hole twice in an hour in the 'closest orbit ever'

The discovery was made using deep space telescopes in Australia and Nasa's Chandra and NuStar.

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