Imagine this: you accidentally lose an arm or a leg, and instead of rushing to the hospital, your body just grows it back.

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A rare Ice Age fish is thriving in a Scottish loch where it was reintroduced after becoming extinct across the country, a new survey has found. The Vendace, considered the UK’s rarest native ...

Two species of disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found in the UK - and are spreading as the climate warms, scientists have warned. Aedes aegypti, also known as the Egyptian mosquito, and Aedes ...

A rare moth that pretends to be a wasp to avoid predators has become the 10,000th species recorded at a UK nature reserve. The National Trust believe that Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire ...

Of all the species that inhabit our waterways, the vendace is by far the rarest freshwater fish. Due to its need for a very specific habitat, residing in very deep, cold water, th ...

A sea urchin fossil believed to be between 65 million and 100 million years old was found on Cromer beach in Norfolk.

Ultra-rare mongoose lemurs have been transferred to a UK zoo as part of a conservation programme to help save the species from extinction. Buzz60’s Chloe Hurst has the story! ‘Not Constitutional’: ...

A skeleton discovered on Dorset’s Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the oceans. The dolphin-sized ichthyosaur, called Xiphodracon ...

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This is the first-ever recorded global bird ...

A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the oceans. The dolphin-sized ...