Watch the extraordinary moment when Sir David Attenborough and BBC filmmakers recorded monkeys lying to fellow members of their troop. Monkeys use calls to warn each other of predators - but do they ever raise false alarms so they can sneak a snack? Brilliant footage from BBC show Clever Monkeys.

Listen to the Natural History Museum in London's human origins expert, Chris Stringer, introduce the Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story exhibition and the people who have called this land their home. The dramatic story of ancient Britain, its changing landscapes and the people that lived ...

Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 in) along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89.2 °C (−128.6

Researchers at Scripps Oceanography and the Western Australian Museum capture on video the first-ever field sighting of the newly discovered third species of seadragon. As they observed two Ruby Seadragons on video for nearly 30 minutes, the scientists uncovered new details about their anatomy, habi...

In this installation two purple dots travel over a plane curve that's a simple modification of Bernoulli's Lemniscate. Notes are played when dots meet and when the distance between them reaches a local extreme. Chords used were arbitrarily chosen. A time laps photo essay of the sun's position durin...

Long before Stonehenge and the pyramids, back when mammoths and saber-toothed cats still roamed the earth, prehistoric people painted deep inside caves in what is today the Dordogne region of France. These cave paintings are huge and sophisticated projects executed by artists and supported by an imp

Color Scope is a series that explores our perception of color, it's use across cultures and other curiosities. Each month we examine a new color. Written and narrated by Dr. James Fox. Blue eyes are in fact pale brown. As light enters a 'blue' eye, it is scattered to create a blue hue, there is no a

An extraordinarily well-preserved dinosaur tail, with a fluffy covering of feathers, lies trapped within a piece of amber. The animal it belonged to would have lived about 99 million years ago. Researchers from China and Canada identify it as a juvenile of some type of coelurosaur, a group that incl

A close look at an extremely visual and rare type of ocean and reef fish: The Feather Starfish.

The killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized light, which could lead to a breakthrough in detecting cancer.