Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

The research suggest octopus and other cephalopods, like squid and cuttlefish, all rely on the ancient chromosome to ...

The Celtic rainforest used to stretch all across Britain but over the centuries (thanks to destructive human activity) has shrunk to just one percent of the country’s land area. Right now, a ...

What stands out the most about this ancient cephalopod sex chromosome is how little the chromosome has changed over time.

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have ...

One day, late in January, a friend and I watched two Steller sea lions swimming near Pt. Louisa. One of them held a front flipper high above the water for several minutes. We often see this behavior, ...

Thousands of native trees have been planted to create a new rainforest - in Devon. So far, 2,500 native trees have been ...

Thousands of native trees have been planted in a bid to create a new rainforest - in Devon. This winter has seen 2,500 native ...

Devon Wildlife Trust is transforming fields near Totnes to create a temperate rainforest.

More than a 100 local people have devoted hundreds of hours to planting species - including oak, rowan, alder, hazel, birch, ...

Waterfall Country’ in the Brecon Beacons will change the landscape of tiny Pontneddfechan – and some aren’t happy about the plans ...

Open the Youtube video In the Ordovician period 470 million years ago, the first land plants – mosses and liverworts – produced more oxygen, eventually creating enough concentration of it to inflict ...