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Thousands flock to see shark dissected

The first live and online autopsy of a 10ft, 660lb great white shark proved a major attraction in Auckland today

The fish with four eyes (and mirrors)

Brownsnout spookfish uses tiny plates to peer through the gloom

Bush turns green to save marine treasures

US President is to create a protection area that covers 195,000 square miles and includes the deepest underwater canyon on earth

Scientists to dissect great white live online

Scientists in New Zealand are to dissect a great white shark live online to uncover what really lies inside the marine predators

Hold on: galaxies may be on collision course

The solar system is orbiting the centre of the Milky Way at a giddy 600,000 mph - 100,000 mph faster than was thought

The pink iguana that Darwin missed

Scientists on the Galápagos Islands have identified a species of iguana that is more than five million years old

Probability lessons teach how to be winners

One of Britain’s leading mathematicians says pupils should be taught the statistical skills to make sensible life decisions

Maybe 2008 was not such a bad year . . .

Why 11,000BC was an exceptionally bad year for the United States

Mockingbird goes back to its origins

A bird that almost died out after giving naturalist Charles Darwin his eureka moment will sing again on its home island

Down House offers insight into evolution

The laboratory where Charles Darwin developed much of his evolutionary thinking is to reopen to the public next month

Darwinian thinking deepens religious faith

Michael Reiss believes Darwin's worldview is not just compatible with religious faith but makes aspects of it more intelligible

'Comet strike on America wiped out civilisation'

Scientists say they may have found a reason for the mysterious extinction of the Clovis people 12,900 years ago

Britain’s first forensic scientist

For half a century, until his own mysterious end in 1947, Spilsbury studied ordinary deaths and extraordinary deaths

Bees see invisible flower colour coding

Bumblebees see iridescent colours invisible to humans, and learn which hues will lead to nectar and pollen

Science minds reveal their vision of the future

Website asks 'What will change everything?' Experts answers include life on Mars, humans rebelling and ice sheets melting