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Nearly 80 years ago, a British expedition discovered the battered remains of a giant fossil on the peak of an Arctic island. Unable to take it with them, they snapped some pictures, took some bones and left the fossil to be ravaged by the icy winds and rain.

Scientists say the developing El Nino could peak around November and December. The build-up of ocean heat could intensify global warming and extreme weather worldwide.

In one of the first studies of its kind, scientists have claimed that the organisms living inside the gut of psychopaths may be the drivers of their peculiar behaviour. The research team has claimed that they have discovered a link between the specific balance of microflora in the gut and psychopathic behaviour.

Food insecurity remains a daily reality for more than 300 million people across Africa, and the high cost of imported potassium fertiliser is part of the problem. Nearly all of the world's potash is mined in Canada, Russia and Germany, leaving African farmers reliant on expensive, distant supply chains and a fertiliser that leaches quickly from the soil.

Male Australian redback spiders perform an acrobatic somersault during mating that sends their abdomen directly toward the female's fangs. Scientists have now found that this deadly self-sacrifice behavior comes from a surprisingly simple genetic region.

A strengthening El Nino across the Pacific now has a more than 90 per cent chance of becoming very strong by late 2026. Scientists say rising ocean heat and shifting winds could heighten weather disruptions, though local impacts may still vary.

Britain's fields, parks and lawns were thriving areas of fresh greenery, just before summer arrived. Then, everything was burnt to a crisp, with a yellow and golden hue and now landscapes as old as thousands of years have been revealed as green outlines against yellow backgrounds.

In the quiet pools of the New York Aquarium, a groundbreaking experiment was unfolding. It was 2001, and a team of scientists was about to test a question that had long fascinated researchers: could beluga whales, the white Arctic cetaceans known for their expressive faces and complex social lives, recognise themselves in a mirror?

Beneath the towering peaks of the Alaska Range, home to Denali, North America's tallest mountain, scientists have uncovered a hidden geological feature that had gone completely unnoticed until now. Using a machine learning system to sift through years of seismic data, researchers built an expanded earthquake catalogue for the region and, within it, identified a distinct cluster of roughly 1,750 small, previously undetected earthquakes arranged in an almost perfectly straight line, stretching 250 kilometres from northwest to southeast beneath south central Alaska.