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Worms team up to form tentacles when they want to go places

5 June 2025

Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on larger animals

Clare Hewitt: Everything in the forest is the forest Oak leaf lumen prints exposed to the sun on the forest floor

Dazzling oak leaf prints merge science and nature

4 June 2025

Artist Clare Hewitt uses fallen oak leaves and sunlight to create her works of art before returning the leaves to the forest

AYMTTG A man looks at a display in the Hall of Biodiversity American Museum of Natural History

Why avoiding a sixth mass extinction is easier than it sounds

4 June 2025

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting our ambitions too low

Crafty cockatoos learn to use public drinking fountains

4 June 2025

Sulphur-crested cockatoos are waiting in line at public drinking fountains in Sydney to have their daily drinks of water in the latest example of cultural evolution in urban birds

Spinosaurus reconstruction from BBC series, Walking with Dinosaurs

Dinosaur's water-loving nature brought to life in BBC show

3 June 2025

Walking with Dinosaurs uses latest science to depict Spinosaurus's aquatic lifestyle

Super-invasive termites could spread from Florida around the world

3 June 2025

Two of the most destructive invasive termite species are interbreeding in the US – they can survive a wider range of temperatures and could easily spread across the globe

There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

2 June 2025

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to reframe the current biodiversity crisis

First evidence of ancient birds nesting above the Arctic circle

29 May 2025

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than previously thought

GreenSTEM. Sainsbury Lab Cambridge University display at Chelsea Flower Show 2025. Credit J.Garget

From Chelsea to the British Library, garden shows are blooming

29 May 2025

There’s fascinating tech at London’s garden shows – from a mini greenhouse that transported live plants to Victorian England to the arboreal equivalent of smartwatches