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 ...

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

Tiny plastic fibres have been found in the stomachs of deep-sea fish living in a remote part of the South Atlantic Ocean. The fibres are most likely to have come from washing machine wastewater, ...

Microplastics are one of the greatest manmade disasters of our time. They are everywhere - from remote places with no human habitations for hundreds of miles to the food on our plates and the water we ...

Human remains from across north-western Europe indicate that cannibalism was a funerary practice. ©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London ...