A “fit and healthy” teenager who was meant to be preparing for GCSEs is instead facing health battle initially thought to be growing pains or a football injury.

An elephant foot bone found by archaeologists digging in southern Spain may be evidence that a troop of war elephants stomped through ancient Europe.

Australia's remarkable wildlife, both living and extinct, is now available to explore in unprecedented detail through a new online 3D database called Ozboneviz.