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An international team of archaeologists, including scientists from The University of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum, has discovered a new communal grave in the Abrolhos Islands, the result of deaths after a shipwreck of the Dutch East India company ship Batavia.

Sharks are among Earth's most ancient creatures. We still have lots to learn about them, but what we know from science is fin-tastic.

A palaeontologist from The University of Manchester has taken part in a project to rebuild and redisplay the skeleton of a 200 million-year-old sea creature, 61 years after its bones were discovered in a field in Warwickshire. The Ichthyosaurus is the largest example ever found in the UK, and it is now available for the public to view for the first time.

A palaeontologist from The University of Manchester has taken part in a project to rebuild and redisplay the skeleton of a 200 million-year-old sea creature, 61 years after its bones were discovered in a field in Warwickshire. The Ichthyosaurus is the largest example ever found in the UK, and it is now available for the public to view for the first time.