Aptly enough in environment questions, we had a sighting of a creature thought extinct. It was Gordon Brown. For those with eyes to see, it was clear that he had come to make a statement. And the statement was: I am not extinct.

The fossilised skull of a dinosaur with the longest horns yet discovered has been unearthed in Mexico by scientists.

Woolly mammoths were equipped with a type of biological anti-freeze which enabled them to survive in the Arctic, researchers have found.

You can debate the dimensions of the ‘true ark’ down to the last cubit. It doesn’t begin to pierce the essential mystery of faith. Noah’s rescue remains a potent allegory

A new species of dinosaur emerged from the rocks in the western US state of Utah.

I'm kneeling in a hole carved out of brick-red rock, my face a few inches from the floor. The sun is hot on my back and the sweat keeps running into my eyes. In front of me are the delicate, creamy-white and exquisitely delicate bones of a small, plant-eating dinosaur.

In the War Office there were a lot of old fossils. But the one who was the real fossil was Claud William Wright. He was not only a senior administrative civil servant, and when transferred to the Ministry of Education the first Permanent Secretary, in effect, to Lord Eccles' Ministry of the Arts under Margaret Thatcher, but also from an early age, a leading geologist, palaeontologist and archaeologist.

Extended winter brought on by gigantic asteroid strike wiped largest-ever land creatures from face of the Earth

A meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago was adorned with orange and white rings running along the length of its tail, according to a study that has identified the colour of dinosaurs for the first time.

Darwin was everywhere last year, with the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, but Jon Amiel's biopic offers little cause for celebration.

Footprints dating back 395 million years shed light on evolutionary milestone

Scientists have unearthed the fossilised bones of a meat-eating dinosaur the size of a large dog which they said could fill in the gaps about the early evolution and global migration of a group of animals that dominated the land for 170 million years.

The illegal trade is increasingly lucrative, with dire results for science

Perhaps not quite as witty as the previous films, Ice Age 3 is great for post Sunday lunch viewing.