University of Leeds Biologist Richard Webster has this week discovered a new bird species in the Forests of Borneo.
The Spectacled Flowerpecker is a small grey bird roughly the same size as the common Wren. At the moment the bird does not yet have a scientific name as so little is …

A deadly Bat killing fungus thought to be isolated in the American North east has been found in Europe.
The Fungus Geomyces Destructans is 100% fatal to all infected bats.
The fungus nicknamed “white nose disease” has already killed more than one million bats in the American North east.
The Fungus is said …

Long Neck Ancestor Found
A new species of dinosaur called Aardonyx celestae from the early Jurassic period in South Africa reveals that the giant sauropod (long necked) dinosaurs started reaching their massive sizes at an earlier stage than expected. The specimen was about 7 metres long and died when it was …

It’s been a long time coming, but regular posters of this forum will be delighted to know that the first major analysis of ‘Ardi’ (Ardipithecus ramidus) has been released.
The findings are exremely important as it reveals ‘Ardi’ to be the earliest known upright ape, living some 1 million years before …

The following story comes in from friend to the site, Galvasean.
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It seems that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex was a victim of the parasitic disease thricomonosis which effects many kinds of modern day birds.
In a twist of cruel irony, the meek and comparatively uninteresting modern day pigeon has an immunity to …