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In the dry storytelling of palaeontology, certain discoveries tend to arrive with a kind of quiet disruption. Not the sort that rewrites textbooks overnight, but one that shifts the edges of what was assumed about a landscape long gone.

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise on Saint Helena, has been recognised as a Guinness World Records icon. Scientists say his exceptional lifespan could offer clues to extreme longevity and healthy ageing.

For centuries, one of the most extraordinary living giants in Asia stood unnoticed among the remote mountains of Taiwan. Hidden within rugged forests and protected by difficult terrain, the colossal tree escaped scientific documentation despite its immense size.

At the bottom of a lake in Mexico City lives a creature that should not, by biological rules, be able to do what it does. Cut off one of its legs, and a new one grows back.

Plastic has a habit of staying around long after its useful life has ended. Some materials can be collected and recycled with relative ease, while others prove far more stubborn.

Carbon capture beads made from dairy and tofu waste could help remove atmospheric CO2 more efficiently, offering a promising low-cost climate technology.

The San Andreas Fault, long embedded in California's public imagination, has once again drawn scientific attention after new analysis suggested it may be holding more accumulated stress than at any point in the past thousand years. The finding does not come with any reliable sense of timing, but it has reopened questions among researchers who study the slow movement of tectonic plates beneath the state.

Scientists say mosquitoes, particularly females, use a range of sensory cues to locate their next meal.

Burmese pythons have already earned a reputation as one of Florida's most destructive invasive species, wiping out populations of native mammals and disrupting ecosystems across the Everglades. But scientists have now uncovered another surprising way these giant snakes may be changing the landscape.

Patagonia's sun-baked plains are defined by rugged plateaus, strong winds and wide blue skies. To the ordinary traveller venturing into this immense South American wilderness, the habitat appears to be made of nothing more than those extreme surface elements.