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To save a mockingbird...

Efforts to protect the endangered bird boosted by genetic study

Why we can talk, but chimps can’t answer

Two gene changes causes cascade of effects resulting in speech

How did the mountain bird get its 'singing wings?'

Solution found to mystery stumping scientists since Darwin's time

Charles Darwin and the children of the evolution

A sinister link has emerged between Charles Darwin's work and the recent spate of high-school killings by nihilistic teenagers

Increase in intellectual standing of newborns

Science has revealed that from birth we are equipped with the basic building blocks of language, mathematics and music

‘Barren’ mare gives birth to rare twin foals

Retired international show jumper defies the vet and odds of 10,000-1 to produce surprise pair

Crying babies imitate parents’ language

Babies pick up the first elements of their native language in the womb, scientists say in a new study

This year we’re talking about an evolution

Professor Sue Hartley is about to become only the fourth woman to deliver the celebrated RI Christmas lectures

Why genetics can't unravel the whole truth

DNA analysis can uncover a lot about an individual. Just don't expect it to reveal your roots - or your destiny

Fight Club: The origins of Man

Was it an accident that Neanderthals died out and humans survived? Two eminent scientists give their view

Moving moment as shoebill leaves duck off menu

The duck protested at being in the giant beak of a shoebill. Rather than being swallowed, it was moved. The moment was caught on camera

Surfers share water with great white sharks

Great white sharks are prevalent along northern California’s shore, and even venture into San Francisco bay, says a study.

Sexy science: Love is niffs and sniffs

The power of smell to attract mates has been known for millennia but the science of chemical communication is recent

My week: Kevan Sheehen

Assembling the Dorset pliosaur skull was an eight-year comedy of errors

World’s oldest spider’s web found in amber

Scientists at the University of Oxford studying the web have discovered it belonged to a predecessor of the garden spider

Endangered monkeys ‘at risk from warming’

South American primates could be pushed further towards extinction as El Niño events become stronger, research indicates

Hunting for a sea monster ...on land

Fossil hunter spent five years digging for huge skull of pliosaur

Massive sea monster skull found in Dorset

Pliosaur, whose fossilised skull has been found, would have been big enough to eat a T. rex for breakfast, experts say

Rare butterflies may breed on South Coast

Queen of Spain fritillaries migrating from Europe have been seen mating and could establish a colony, say conservationist

Why you are cleverer than you think

Our notions of brainpower are changing. We are entering a new age of intelligence, says a leading authority on learning

Neanderthals ‘had sex’ with modern man

Modern humans and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to a leading geneticist

COMMENT: hype over fossil only misled

In favouring style over substance, Ida's promoters sold the public a false version of Man's own evolutionary history