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Koalas have quickly learned to use wildlife passageways to cross busy roads in Australia's Queensland state as they move between habitats.

The crashed remains from Flight MH370 could be as much as 500km further north than the current search area, argues a new modelling study.

Professor Monica Grady describes the final days of communication with the Philae lander

Scientists have used high-power X-rays to "see inside" an exquisite and complete dinosaur specimen.

An orangutan copying sounds made by researchers offers new clues to how human speech evolved, scientists say.

Every day hundreds of thousands of Britons put their coffee cup into a recycling bin. They're wrong - those cups aren't recyclable.

A new study suggests that the increasing acidification of the oceans is likely to interfere with the ability of fish to reproduce.

Fishermen in the Plura region of Peru have rescued an exhausted whale calf that had become trapped in a net.

The prospect of using cloning to treat humans has been boosted by new evidence suggests that it can be used safely in animals.

The president of the Royal Society has called for the UK government to underwrite the research of all UK-based researchers who apply for EU funding now.

Dolly the sheep's "siblings" are generally healthy, a study has shown, providing hope that cloning can yield animals free from degenerative illness.

A rare white humpback whale has been spotted off Australia's east coast travelling at a leisurely pace not far from the famous holiday town Byron Bay.

On World Mangrove Day, Sri Lanka's prime minister says mangroves' ability to swiftly absorb carbon make them vital in the fight to curb climate change.

The first round-the-world solar powered flight has been completed.

The Solar Impulse becomes the first aircraft to circle the globe powered by the sun after landing in Abu Dhabi on the last leg of its journey.

When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a new study reveals.

Photographer Charles Fox documents the work of the Trapang Sangke fishing community in Cambodia.

The UK government's getting together with the retail giant Amazon, to start testing flying drones that can deliver parcels to your door.

The areas of the brain involved in complex thought are the ones that change the most during the teenage years, research shows.

Tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing have killed one woman and injured another after the pair left their vehicle, Chinese media reports say.