Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

The presence of other dinosaur footprints among the ceratopsians has led researchers to believe that these trackways could ...

“We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from.” The paper describing the hybridisation event has been published in the journal Cell. Domestic potatoes are incredibly diverse, but it ...

The potato came from a chance natural interbreeding event between the ancestors of today’s tomatoes and those of a closely related group called Etuberosum.

The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of ...

Since their transformation and reopening in July 2024, the Natural History Museum’s gardens have welcomed over five million visitors i n just 12 months, cementing their place as one of central ...

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction.

This year we’re celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of our world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

Spotted lanternflies have been hitchhiking their way across Asia and the United States for several years. But why do they keep hitting the headlines? An invasion of spotted lanternflies, Lycorma ...

The Broken Hill 1 (Kabwe) skull became the first historically significant human fossil found in Africa when it was discovered in Zambia in 1921. Almost one hundred years later and the remains of this ...