Tony Jolliffe/BBCAfter lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy.Archaeologists ...

10 hours agoBy Jonah Fisher, BBC Environment correspondentBBC/Tony JolliffeThe Mount Mabu chameleon Rhampholeon maspictus is one of dozens of unique species that have been found in the forestPerched on a remote ...

It was 1982 and 22-year-old first-year Leicester University PhD student Julian Andrews was on a field trip to Skye's rugged north coast.The young scientist was not looking for dinosaurs.He ...

New discoveries in the buried ancient city shed fresh light on Roman life before Vesuvius erupted. Source link