Birth of chicken step by step.Pictures of formation of an embryo.

Chickens and dinosaurs may have more in common than was previously thought after researchers discovered close ties between the two creatures. The link between the bird and the Tyrannosaurus Rex has been revealed in a protein study dating back 88million...

New images taken by the Hubble space telescope show galaxies spinning, sliding and smashing into each nother, wreaking stellar destruction that will give birth to new and larger galaxies.

A female fish which hasn’t had full sex for at least 70,000 years is baffling scientists.

Photographs of the ‘Tree People’ by George Steinmetz.

In the wake of centuries of effort to seek deep connections between music and mathematics, a team today concludes that music does have geometry.

Astronauts who spend too much time in space may be at risk of premature ageing and cancer, research suggests.

The Chinese authorities have detained a high-profile Tibetan television reporter who is also a popular singer, suggesting that the government crackdown following the disturbances in and around Tibet has yet to run its course.

Three days after stealing a rare collection of coins, a thief in Germany took them to the bank for safe keeping — and delivered them into the hands of the man he had robbed.

Evolution isn’t perfect. Just as the Kennedy family can produce a Ted, some noble species go down the wrong genetic path and what used to be the Tyrannosaurus Rex can wind up as a modern chicken.