Aesculapian snakes established the world's most northerly population in the 1970s when several escaped from a failed enclosure at the Welsh Mountain Zoo. Since then, many Colwyn Bay residents have ...

Britain Ancient Scrolls This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge ... near Oxford, that uses a particle accelerator known as a synchrotron to create an intensely powerful X-ray.

The scroll was scanned by Diamond Light Source, a lab at Harwell, near Oxford, that uses a particle accelerator ... One of the few words that has been made out is the ancient Greek for “disgust.” ...

The particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives the physicists clues about how the particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of ...

As few as 1,864 giant pandas live in the wild, the zoo says on its website. An additional 600 live in zoos and breeding centers around the world. For many, that made seeing the pandas in-person in ...

Beginning on January 24, visitors to the National Zoo can finally see Bao Li and Qing Bao in person. Roshan Patel / Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Meilan Solly ...

Giant pandas Qing Bao and Bao Li have made their public debut on Friday after three months of adapting to their new life in Washington DC's Smithsonian National Zoo. They arrived in the US in ...

Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) live across much of sub-Saharan Africa, but the species went extinct in what is now Egypt 5,000 years ago, when a changing climate made the region too dry for ...