The Jamaican Giant Galliwasp, a species now presumed extinct, is thought to have been collected in the 1850s and became part of the University of Glasgow collections in 1888. A team from the ...

At 2.5 billion years old and weighing in at 2.5 tonnes, the banded iron formation is so heavy that Museum engineers had to reinforce the floor underneath it in Hintze Hall. 'The rock tells a ...

A lizard specimen on its way back to its Jamaican homeland from a Scottish university collection 170 years after it was taken has been described as “transformational” by researchers.

Over the next decade and a half, he continued to band starlings, and by 1906, Mortensen had banded a total of 1550 individuals. By 1930, bird banding had become prevalent throughout Europe ...

Again, the mongoose gets blamed most. The Jamaican giant galliwasp, a lizard species, may have been exterminated by mongoose, naturalists say. And anecdotal evidence suggests that other lizard ...

Just over 50.1 per cent (6,815 votes) chose the blue-banded bee (Amegilla cingulata) from a field of six insect finalists selected by an expert panel. The common hoverfly (Melangyna viridiceps ...

Philip Clarke, a historian whose work has for decades supported Indigenous groups in their land rights claims, said on Wednesday the blue-banded bee story was “highly unlikely” as The ...