Natural History

Calves benefit from having older sisters more than older brothers.

Modern humans entered Europe around 45,000 years ago, and soon after replaced Neanderthals.

Planet Earth was habitable as early as 4.1 billion years ago - 700 million years earlier than the first fossil. Shame it has to end soon.

Don’t despair if this weekend turns out to be a washout; the UK’s natural history museums are the perfect place to spend a rainy afternoon. Gervase Poulden has five of the best

At times awkwardly funny, informative and charming, Marianne Taylor's book is an easy first step into British natural history

The loveliness, power and strength in stone is the raw beauty of Nature herself. In every piece of stone there is a story told more magnificent than any creation myth; a story that shocked and astonished the Christian geologists of late-1700s England when they first started to decipher, through the fossil record, the history of life on Earth.