Unclassifiable mushroom-shaped alien creatures have been discovered in the ocean depths off Australia. Two species of the organisms were found that could not be placed in any existing phyla, the large families of living things including vertebrates and flowering plants.

Danes have defended the killing of a healthy giraffe at Copenhagen zoo that triggered outrage after it was skinned and fed to lions in front of visitors.

Scientists have found new evidence they say supports the theory that a knuckle bone and other human remains found under a church floor in Bulgaria may be of John the Baptist.

A powerful new weight-loss drug originally developed to treat brain diseases is twice as effective as the best existing anti-obesity medicines, research has shown.

SCIENTISTS have developed a simple method of converting blood from one group to another.