Wet weather has helped a new population of one of the UK's most ancient creatures to hatch in the south of Scotland. The ...

The tadpole shrimp has been returned to RSPB Scotland's Mersehead Reserve in Dumfries and Galloway after more than 75 years.

CODY - Three-eyed, hairy-legged creatures stir in the mud of Red Lake. They've crawled the Earth for 220 million years. They eat aggressively, fight and cannibalize. They've slept for a decade, and ...

Rain brings life, especially in the more notoriously arid environments. Plants flourish, animals thrive and life abounds after water hits the earth. But one very particular form of life has been ...

KASHAN, 7 October (BelTA - IRNA) - Tadpole shrimps, among the planet’s oldest surviving species and regarded as living fossils, have been sighted in the city of Ardestan, Isfahan Province in central ...

RSPB Scotland’s reserve at Mersehead on the Solway coast is now home to a new population of tadpole shrimp. It’s one of just ...

Officers carried out searches in Bonnyrigg and at addresses in Dumfries and Galloway. The details emerged at Holyrood after Agricultural Minister Jim Fairlie was challenged on the outcomes of a summit ...

An exquisitely preserved fossilised tadpole is the oldest ever discovered by science, dating back 161 million years, with an anatomy that is strikingly similar to some of today’s species.