An ancient bear which roamed the UK thousands of years ago is among the fearsome prehistoric predators whose remains are ...
About 20,000 years ago, an enormous, floating ice shelf more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) thick helped lock in three of the largest ice sheets in northern Canada and Greenland. When that ice shelf ...
I’m on my second day of walking the Westmorland and Furness Way (W&FW). Launched last month, the 120-mile (193km) trail ...
For thousands of years, humans shaped their world with stone, wood and bone. Metallurgy, the art and science of working with ...
Today, you can usually look up what an unfamiliar object is supposed to do. That gets harder when its makers are long gone, ...
A 12,500-year-old horse tooth found in a Torquay cave could provide new evidence of the ancient ancestry of Dartmoor’s hill ...
From Thatcherism to global crisis to an ever-online world, Caryl Churchill has chronicled our race to the abyss. Now she’s written a play about a blond-wigged apologist for an un-named, strongman rule ...
The origins and devastating human impact of Britain’s largest medieval lead industry have been traced - through human teeth.
No-nonsense, effortless beauty and a sun-kissed – but not sun-damaged – glow is the look du jour in Britain’s most desirable ...
A dinosaur fossil that sat unnoticed in a museum collection for nearly a century has turned out to belong to a previously ...